Gestão escolar na Rede Estadual de Minas Gerais: desafios da formação administrativa do diretor

Abstract

This dissertation was developed under the Professional Masters Program in School Management and Evaluation of Public Education (PPGP) from the Center of Public Policies and Education Evaluation of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The research was intended to discuss about the training of managers in the scope of the Regional Superintendence of Education (SRE) Metropolitan B, of the State Secretariat of Education of Minas Gerais (SEE / MG), with a priority outline in Ibirité-MG. Faced with the changes in the configuration of educational activities in the last decades, it is now necessary for the school director to perform multiple functions. Thus, management activities range from pedagogical management, human resources and encompassing administrative and financial management, in a bureaucratic approach. In this context, the directors‟ formation processes become an indispensable condition for the achievement of educational objectives. A large part of the required competencies of elementary schools‟ principals is in the scope of administrative management, which, despite being an intermediate activity, if poorly managed entails damage to what is considered an end activity, namely, pedagogical management. Based on these findings, it was held as an initial assumption that there are gaps in the formation of school directors in general and, more specifically, of those allocated in the state network of Minas Gerais. For that, a qualitative research was carried out and as instruments the individual interview and structured questionnaire were applied. The theoretical overview was based mainly on Lück (2000 and 2009); Sander (1993); Paro (2010); Machado (2000) and Teixeira and Malini (2016) to construct the axes of analysis. They have discussed the correlation of the different dimensions of school management; the required competencies of the principal and his or her qualification, including its implications for the school management. In the end, the assumption above was confirmed, when initial training for the directors was inexistent. Moreover, there was a lack of knowledge about available training courses on the network, and the repeated feeling of abandonment during the interviews. In this manner, the results of the research indicated the existence of gaps between the training of principals and the competences required for effective school management. In view of this, an Educational Action Plan (PAE) was proposed to minimize the difficulties encountered. Its main proposal consists in the creation of a training center and monitoring of directors in the SRE surveyed, including a basic, continuous and cyclical administrative-financial training for directors among other actions.