Atividades eletivas de uma escola de ensino médio em tempo integral da cidade de Fortaleza (CE): gestão da parte flexível do currículo

Abstract

This master degree dissertation has been developed in the context of the professional master degree in education management and evaluation at the center for Public Policy and Evaluation of Education at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The case of management that has been studied in this dissertation concerns about the interfaces of the implementation from a flexible curriculum at the project of the two period of a day studies in a public high school, morning and afternoon, which has been developing by Ceará state, in northeast Brazil, as an educational policy, since 2016, one including social straregy and human being promotion. Considering this context, this present study adopted the term “Full Time Public High School”. This research has intended to find possible answers for the following question: How to a flexible curriculum could be appropriated to a Full Time Public High School, according to the policy of education purposed by the office education bureau of Ceará state government, and as a complement of this question, how could the flexible curriculum could demand the expectations from students community, through the management workgroup in a public high school structured by a Principal and Coordinators. The main objectives of this study has been drawing in three perspectives: first one, the description of the offering and chosen of the designated, free subjects named by the office education bureau "elective subjects”, which has presented by an official menu. This "freen choice" has revealed a contrastive behaviour by students, who used to be absent from the elective subjects. The second perspective concerns about the management of the flexible curriculum in the school every day life, day by day by students, in their youth leadership, how do they developed a meaningful relationship with school. The third perspective has been proposed an action plan an education action plan as a support tool for the management workgroup of a Full Time Public High School. The education action plan, in its executation, could improve the process of choice by free subjects/elective subjects. To achieve the goals stand by on three focused objectices, a qualitative methodology was based this study. Therefore, data collection has been carried out through a focused group. The interaction happened on-line by cyberspace due the context of current pandemic situation provocated by Covid-19. The group was composed by students, who choice was based on the following criteria: attending the 3rd year graduation public high school, the final level, who having been absent from elective subjects/free subjects in 2019 school period, their absences have been recorded in the monitoring coordination book. The group used to have regular acess to internet. This study has been made and done according to two theorical axes/bases: (1) full time public high school curriculum, whose study, discussion and knowledge about as public education policies for high school and school curriculum, those toghether, could develop the youth leadership and (2) how the youth leadership, in their young needs, social expectation, aimed to outline reflections and their contribution to the management of the flexible curriculum at a full time public high school. This is a need to a consolidation for the youth leadership. The data, which have been analyzed in this research, as a result of studies, reflections and discussions, have been promoted a drawing of possible actions to face the difficulties related in the management of the formed/ training itinerary - the structure of choice of free/elective subjects and basic curriculum. The education action plan has been structured in six meaningful steps, whose have been numbered as a chain: (1) To invitate school community/school neighboorhood/students tutors - parents, relatives, responsable adults for students, who should be invited for an experiencing students day, as an educative immersion in the two period school day; (2) To promote a teacher's planning developement, as a collective of actions - to study, to experience, to share didatical practises drive to the formed/ training itinerary; (3) To improve a relaxing/lounge school area. Considering the exaustive day in school, students need a relaxing lounge/area; (4) To elaborate/ create a representative youth leadership strategy plan, which could promote the students citizen development as a collective youth leadership school representation, named by "Grêmio estudantil"; (5) To invite the 9th/Ninth grade students from elementary public schools of the neighboorhood for a moment, an immersion in the two period day high school. The elementary school is managed by Municipal Education Bureau and (6) To write a descriptive report about school's building fragilities, physical building deterioration, which must describe the needs of improvement in the school building. This report must be addressed to the Office Education Bureau of Ceará State Government - SEDUC.