The conception of management in education planning

Abstract

This study aims to apprehend the topic of educational planning and how the conception of democratic management and managerial management are presented in the educational literature. We used qualitative research, based on bibliographic studies. For this purpose, as our bibliographic sources, we consulted articles, book chapters, and books, all of them dealing with both democratic and managerial management, as well as educational planning. At first, we approached the democratic management and managerial management of education, and, after that, the educational planning, and how such concepts are presented in it. We concluded that the educational planning contributes to the organization of the educational management as it makes it possible to set achievable goals and objectives in order to improve the quality of education. When it presents a conception of democratic management, it leads to citizen’s critical development, since it provides the participation in the planning process, as well as defining the path that enables the conditions for the collective edification of actions within the educational field, according to the society’s wishes; therefore, contributing to social transformation. When there is a conception of managerial management, it is elaborated only by the State and, in this process, the civil society participation is partially accepted, and it happens in a rationalized way only in the implementation part, but not in the planning itself.