O resgate da profissionalização: um estudo de caso do Colégio Estadual Walter Orlandini

Abstract

This study investigates the school context of an educational unit in São Gonçalo, RJ which, in the last decade, has staged several interventions in its curricular offerings. These changes resulted in the loss of institutional identity and also the credibility of the educational mission of the school. Through an active and integrated management team, this school recovered the image of the institution and, at the same time, developed a curriculum reorganization. In this aspect, the educational institution passed to ensure the communication between areas of knowledge through interactive dynamics and multidisciplinary fairs. Created to be a center of Vocational Education, nowadays seeks to rescue the Secondary School Integrated to Work, providing for students the skills to a productive life and continuing studies. From the methodological point of view, a research was made which consisted of interviews with managers and a questionnaire administered to 180 students of the 3rd year of high school and 12 teachers. According to the theoretical framework of Heloise Lück (2009) it was possible to assess the effectiveness of school management in administrative, organizational and pedagogical dimensions, that contemplates the reorganization of curricular offerings of the unit, and based on the studies of Saviani (1997 and 2008), Moura (2006), Frigotto and Simões (2007), considering the Development Plan for Education and Decree 6094/2007, chart a plan of action enabling the school overcome the duality and exclusion of young people from the world of production. Therefore, it is proposed to the analyzed school a Secondary School integrated with a Vocational Education.