Gestão: o caminho para mudança

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate and to explain the revitalization in the area of teaching and administration, in the period from 2003 to 2006, of two school units in the city of Resende – RJ. Both units serve students from the periphery who live within an area of social inequality and violence. This feature has been long interpreted as probabily cause for parents refusing to enroll their children in these school units, what lead to a continuous decrease in the number of students. One consequence of the low number of students was that it nearly closed or permitted the return of the building to the municipal government. These characteristics have stimulated our interest in explaining how and why these schools are no longer rejected by the community and they began to be recognized as good schools. Our emphasis will be on the management model adopted for this transformation. Two questions guided us: What were the partnerships established during this process and their direct impacts? And what changes were needed in the management model? Our goal is to evaluate the management to promote actions that strengthen success at school. Thus, this work was supported by field research, direct observation, application of indirect observation and interviews, through the analysis of records and documents of the schools to seek answers to key questions. After research work, we realize that the most responsible for the reversal of the school wear came through the implementation of new management practices, focusing mainly on financial aspects, the attraction of partnerships and the mapping of the school situation for setting goals and objectives for the future of the school. Relying on these results, a proposition was made to prepare a material to be distributed on the network, based on the successful experience of these two schools.