Práticas democráticas na escola: Um estudo de caso numa escola secundária no norte de Moçambique

This work stems from a case study in a secondary school in the northern Mozambique, which examined how develops the education for democracy in school context, in accordance with the guidelines laid down by the General Secondary Education Curricular Plan. The target population for this research include students and teachers of grade ten and the school director. Data collection techniques were the semi-structured interview, observation of lessons, and documentary analysis. This study showed that, in general, the daily practices in the school in study are more towards to the compliance of the educational programmes and the transmission of content; dominating, in this way, bureaucratic responsibility logic and education for compliance; the study demonstrated a dissociation between the guidelines for action and action plan, especially the way teachers deal with issues related to education in democratic values and the way the school involves students in the operation of the school. The study concludes that the school tends more to indoctrinate students, there is little direct involvement of students in decision-making about the problems of the school and absence of autonomous organizations of students.