As ações de formação dos gestores dos Centros Estaduais de Educação Profissional do Estado do Piauí: elementos para uma política de formação

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the demands and gaps in training of managers from “Centros de Educação Profissional na Secretaria Estadual do Piauí” to propose actions for improvement. The training of managers has been a constant concern among Brazilian educators seeking to improve the quality of education. The study is important since managers need to be trained for the proper performance of their functions, being able to act in the face of pedagogical demands, since the administrative issues often tend to take almost all the attention from these professionals. So in order to satisfactorily perform their duties, managers need to be trained to develop techniques and teaching skills necessary to accomplish their practice, which brings up the need of keep up learning. Nowadays it becomes important as the school faces new challenges, including establishing more appropriate conditions to answer the diversity of people who take part in it. The methodology used was a qualitative study of cases with different techniques of data collection and also document analysis by “Secretaria Estadual de Educação do Piauí”, including literature search and interviews with ten school managers seeking to understand all the process and involving a dialogue between the researcher and the reality. The development of the theoretical research was based on authors acknowledged contribution in regard to school management and their implications , especially for strategic and democratic participation applied to education , and issues related to educational administration, including continuous training and several dimensions of school managers , conditions for the effectiveness of training and development process such as Luck (1999 , 2000, 2001, 2004 , 2008, 2009, 2010 , 2011), Machado (2010), Mintzberg (2010), Pacheco et al (2009), Polon (2005) among others. Search results has shown that training courses offered by Seduccan not supply all the basic demands of training of managers CEEPs don´t answer their specific needs either. Besides, the result revealed among other issues, the need of a specific training course for managers of CEEPs in order to improve the educational system. It was also revealed that the center managers have no management preparation by the time they assume their direction duties and there is no sector in charge of it at SEDUC. The analysis of the demands and gaps in training of the managers of the CEEPs at SEDUC/PI culminated in the proposal of the Action Plan suggested for this search.