O programa de pós-graduação lato sensu em gestão e avaliação da educação pública: um estudo sobre os processos de planejamento, implementação e avaliação da formação junto aos gestores de escolas estaduais da CREDE 19 no Ceará

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze how they were conducted the planning, implementation and evaluation processes on the Program of Post-Graduation Lato Sensu in Management and Evaluation of Public Education, on its first edition design (2009-2011), within the 19th Regional Coordination on Education Development - CREDE/SEDUC scope, in order to propose improvements in school managers instruction. The choice for this issue is directly linked to the role of the researcher as coordinator on the 18th CREDE and former coordinator on the 19th CREDE, and the understanding that the professional development of managers may represent an improvement in management process and, therefore, on school results. Thus, based on a case study, considering a qualitative approach, and using as theoretical mainly the studies of Lück (2000, 2009, 2011, 2011b), Libâneo et. al. (2009), Mintzberg (2010) and Machado (2012), we demonstrate how the course was evaluated by the government responsible institutions, how the students received teachings related to their function in the schools, especially regarding to the issue of participative management, as well as if the Educational Action Plans developed by the managers as the course conclusion work were or have been implemented inside the state schools. Thus, this work has the following specific aims: (i) describe the policy of schools managers’ instruction from the Department of Education from the State of Ceará (Secretaria de Educação do Ceará); (ii) describe the course of Post-Graduation Lato Sensu in Management and Evaluation of Public Education (SEDUC/CAEd), analyzing the conduction of its planning, implementation and evaluation processes; (iii) answer to what extent the school manager participant of this research found on the Program of Post-Graduation Lato Sensu in Management and Evaluation of Public Education grants to improve their knowledge and practice on the Strategic and Participative management; (iv) Present an Educational Action Plan to the continuous instruction of managers from the state schools under the supervision by the 19th Regional Coordination for Education Development (CREDE 19). Thereby, it was detected, among other things, that most managers / students understand the offered course as a good learning opportunity, and realize in their practice the use of the knowledge acquired.