A representação social de formação continuada para os gestores da CDE2/SEDUC-AM e sua relação com a participação destes no PROGESTÃO

Abstract

This work was developed in the Professional Postgraduate Program in Management and Appraisal of Public Education from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora and seeks to answer the question concerning the low participation of the District Coordination of Education 2 managers (CDE2) The Distance Program of training for School Managers - Progestão. This was implemented by the State of Amazonas’ Secretariat of Education in order to qualify managers to exercise their role by offering them subsidies and theoretical reflection of management practices seeking to improve skills. The research has as main objective to analyze the perception of school managers from CDE2 on the place of training for the exercise of school management. It attempted to unravel the low adhesion’s main cause of these professionals to the training course. The research used as a methodological tool the Theory of Social Representations, which favors research on how they form and how the reference systems work socially to interpret the events of everyday reality. To carry out the proposed research, the following instruments data collection were chosen: bibliography research, documents analysis and conduction of semistructured interviews using the interview/words call-up technique by inducing expressions to survey the managers’ perceptions. Overall, the survey results showed the existence of gaps or weaknesses in continuous training process of Progestão. These deficiencies are related as to the adhesion process as the proposed curriculum and, finally, the training results follow-up, becoming evident in the research’s obtained results. Regarding this study, the analysis aims indicate path improvements in the continuous training program of SEDUC-AM. The research suggests, finally, recommendations for the program’s improvement. From these recommendations stand out: the reset of a curriculum proposal that enrich the management practice and their imminent needs as education professionals; the improvement of communication between the bodies involved in the training and management teams of CDE2.