Cooperação entre a família e a escola no processo educativo: estudo de caso de uma escola municipal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The present dissertation is developed within the scope of the Professional Master's in Education Management and Assessment (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policies and Education Assessment at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). Through a case study, this paper sought to identify a management problem within Municipal School Professora Thereza Falci, with the intention of presenting an Educational Action Plan that promotes improvements to the pedagogical practices developed within the institution, located in northern Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais, Brazil), whose audience includes students from kindergarten up to elementary school. Our research analyzes what the school manager can do to promote the students' families' involvement in the educational experience. The identification of the problem was based on the observation of the institutional context, the collection of evidence from the school's documentary archive, and exploratory interviews on the subject. In the school's recent history, we looked at a good positioning of the institution when it came to external evaluations at the municipal level and family participation in meetings and parties. However, we noticed a low level of family participation in the students' pedagogical supervision, which proves an obstacle to the potential improvement of the educational process. This statement about the effects of family participation is, based on arguments found in literature, a premise that is defended in this work; however, it is understood that this is not such a direct and simplified relationship. Thus, the general goal of this dissertation is to identify the management practices of the institution under study that collaborate to bringing the family closer to the school experience and, from that, to propose an Action Plan that improves the existing mechanisms and implements new practices, with an impact on students' performance. The specific goals defined for this case study were: I) To describe the relationship between family and institution at Municipal School Professora Thereza Falci, contemplating the practices of bringing families together and the obstacles that have compromised the complementarity between family and school. II) To analyze the management case based on the theoretical framework that addresses the topic of co-education and the data collected in interviews, as well as presenting the research instruments. III) To present an action plan to strengthen the alliance between family and school, aligning the institution's identity to contributions from academic studies such as the present research. Our theoretical framework includes the works of Oliveira and Mariotini (2016), Pereira and Lopes (2017), Castro (2015), Paro (2000, 2016), Burgos (2014), Silva (2014), Lück (2008), Cavalcante (1998), Apple and Beane (2001), among other works that guide the discussion on the relationship between family, school, and school management.