Beyond management: the process of managing at a Public School of Elementary Education in Brazil/Para alem do management: o processo de managing em uma Escola Publica de Ensino Fundamental no Brasil/Mas alla del management: el proceso de managing en una Escuela Publica de Ensenanza Fundamental en Brasil

This article aims to understand the so-called managing process in a public elementary school as a relational and emergent process, beyond the idea of management. Managing as a process in Brazilian public schools is a phenomenon with peculiar characteristics, since it involves multiple actors of a school community. Everyday practices, conflicts, uncertainties, negotiations, and diverse interests constantly arise in everyday school life. Hence, it is fundamental to study school management not from a perspective of something static and given a priori, but as a constant dynamic managing process, in which management itself is (re)constructed by continuous interactions between people and situations they experience in organizational everyday life. Data was collected using the shadowing technique, which consists of the daily monitoring of an organizational actor during a certain period, in their daily tasks, and documents of the school studied. Systematic observations occurred from February to May 2015, complemented by more sporadic visits to the field from June to September 2015. Data were analyzed through content analysis. The obtained results point to school managing as a constant process of evolution that is situated, transitory, and product of the dialogues, interactions, and experience of emergencies and critical moments in daily school life. Keywords: School managing. Public school. Managing. Shadowing. Este artigo objetiva compreender a gestao em uma escola publica de ensino fundamental como um processo relacional e emergente, para alem do management. A gestao das escolas publicas brasileiras e um fenomeno com caracteristicas peculiares, dado que envolve multiplos atores da comunidade escolar. Assim, praticas cotidianas, conflitos, incertezas, negociacoes e interesses diversos surgem constantemente no dia a dia escolar. Diante disso, e fundamental estudar a gestao escolar sob uma otica que considere a gestao nao como algo estatico e dado a priori, como na ideia do management, mas enquanto um constante processo dinamico de managing, no qual a gestao e (re)construida a partir das continuas interacoes entre as pessoas e as situacoes vivenciadas por elas no cotidiano organizacional. Nesse sentido, para a coleta de dados, este estudo utilizou a tecnica shadowing, que consiste no acompanhamento cotidiano de um ator organizacional durante determinado periodo de tempo, nas suas ocupacoes diarias, e documentos da escola estudada. As observacoes sistematicas ocorrer