Modelo de gestão em uma escola estadual de educação profissional do Ceará e sua influência no desempenho dos alunos em avaliações externas

Abstract

The present dissertation had as its goal to investigate how the actions conducted by a management team contributed to the increase in the academic performance levels at a school of professional education. The relevance of the research is due to the significant improvement of the students’ academic performance levels through the years 2009-2011. Such fact awakened the interest to research if the management system adopted contributed to the positive results. In order to develop the research we described the core elements of the Professional Education Policy implemented in the State of Ceará; characterized the school; presented the management system adopted there, as well as the obtained results. To present these pieces of information we investigated the documents that institutionalized the policy, as well as school documents and data from a survey conducted with the student body, parents and teachers. Once the investigation was conducted we began the analysis of the following elements: Participative Democratic Management; Factors in School Efficacy, High Stakes Assessment. In order to fundament the theoretical reference we utilized the following authors: Lutzki, Ferreira, and Lima regarding the conceptual part of management; Franco, Bonamino, Mintzberg, Senge and Lück, in regards to efficacy in schools; Becker e Brooke regarding large scale educational policies. After conducting the analysis we elaborated an Intervention Plan as a way to help other managers to look for inspiration in creating their own management systems. The Action Plan was built on three axis: Participative Democratic Management; School Efficacy and School Climate. Such axis were chosen mainly based on the theory of Participative Management, understood and the thread that ties all the actions of a democratic school; the school efficacy, because of the intention of reaching excellency; and the school climate since we believe it to be an axis which standardizes the other intra school activities.