Melhoria do desempenho discente: análise de uma unidade com desempenho insatisfatório

Abstract

The insufficient performance of a Municipal Preschool and Primary Education school at the suburb of Limeira, São Paulo, with around five hundred students, is this thesis main analysis. Therefore, this dissertation objective is to identify the low performance causes and propose an intervention to conduct to better results. The justification to study it is the fact that the school has shown a low performance in the national and state indicators in the last years, what has resulted to the Scholar Unit the worst Basic Education Development Index (IDEB) of county. Situated in a suburban region in the city, the considered community shows an adverse social and economic situation and of high vulnerability. The children arising from this reality don't have the same cultural capital of upper middle class. In the current context in which the school is located, it was necessary to research the education indicators achieved by it since it start to participated in external evaluations, that show evolution of results. Beyond this, the faculty members, student parents, pedagogical coordinator and the deputy director were interviewed, to search data about the causes attributed to this failure and the appointed difficulties in order to improve the students’ performance. The analysis of dates is based in Patto (1999) and Peregrino (2010) at what refers to constitution of the extraschoolar factors and in Charlot (2000, 2005) that treats of the academic success in the perspective of the relationship with knowledge. In addition, Soares’s researchs (2007, 2009) were used regarding the effect of school and the role of school management against student performance. In this sense, an Educational Action Plan have intending to make the scholar unit an institution focused in learning and concretizing the effective schools characteristics through the promotion of lines of actions directed to the own school manager, to teachers, students and their parents.