Práticas de gestão escolar: um estudo de caso na Escola Estadual Joaquim Maurício de Azevedo de Janaúba / MG

Abstract

This work investigates practices of management in the State School Joaquim Mauricio de Azevedo, situated in Janaúba/MG. This study aimed to analyze how the management practices of Joaquim Mauricio de Azevedo match the practices presented in the four dimensions of School Management Award. As a general goal, we would like to understand the state school management practices Joaquim Mauricio de Azevedo and compare them with the practices presented to the School Management Award. To achieve this goals, we elaborated a case study with descriptive and qualitative nature, with the instruments for collection and interpretation of data to literature, document analysis and semi-structured interviews with members of the management team and teachers. From this, the work is divided into three chapters. The first chapter of this study was due to present the case study, discussing the description of the State Department of Education and the Regional Superintendent of Education of Janaúba, to present o the school unit under study, to describe the School Management Award, as well as their categories analyzed according the rules of the school Management Award 2013 - a time when the school won in Regional level. The Award categories analyzed in this work are the Pedagogical Management which includes the Planning and Pedagogical Actions and Indicators of Educational Outcomes; Participative Management; People Management and Leadership and Infrastructure Management. The objective is also, in the first chapter of this thesis describe the school's self-evaluation and thereby highlight the scale of management under review, and present and compare the researched school with three state schools in the Janaúba city that has similar characteristics. In the second chapter, we analyzed the problem of case management through dialogue with a theoretical and field research. The field research actors involved in the educational process: management team, mainly, and school teachers through observation and interviews. The dialogue with the theoretical framework was made through the work of Heloísa Luck, Vitor Henrique Paro, Henry Mintzberg, Marcia Cristina da Silva Machado and Thelma P. Lucia Polon among others. From the identified management practices, we formulated the proposal that was presented in the third chapter. This proposal was aimed at an educational action plan - PAE, which contributes to the reduction of differences between the practices presented and the actual practices of the State School Joaquim Mauricio de Azevedo.