Democratic management in Professional and Technological Education

Abstract

This article aims to promote a discussion about democratic management. A reflection based on exploratory bibliographic research is proposed, associated with a theoretical discussion. Professional and Technological Education is emphasized, in its aspects of work, knowledge and technological innovation, as a field of study for carrying out joint actions in favor of the constitution of an integral human formation. It seeks to instigate the overcoming of any and all forms of authoritarian management, addressing ways of promoting processes for the acquisition of a more egalitarian education through humanistic and emancipatory attitudes. For this, the relevance of praxis is discussed from a humanist perspective supported by authors such as Isabel Alarcão, Maria Ciavatta, Paulo Freire, Cleunice Matos Rehem and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, defending Professional and Technological Education as a field for educating workers and children of workers where critical reflection, solid knowledge and the possibility of action in their own realities are aligned.