A formação dos gestores escolares do interior do Amazonas e sua relação com a organização escolar

Abstract

This master's thesis was developed at the Professional Graduate Program in Management and Evaluation of Public Education (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policies and Evaluation of Education at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). This work aims to analyze the education process of school managers in the interior of the Amazonas State, based on the School of Public Education Managers program, and its relationship with school management and organization. In order to do so, it seeks to identify the possible implications of the gap between the training received from the aforementioned continuing education program and the way school management and organization is performed by the managers. Our hypothesis is that the education processes offered through SEDUC/AM to school managers are directly related to their performance within schools. As observed in loco, the manager's “not doing” attitude in certain aspects evidences the distance between the education received by the managers and the actual organization of the school. Therefore, the relevance of this study is justified because it allows a greater understanding of how the relationship between the school practical activities and the knowledge acquired through the program is, or is not, materialized at the heart of the school, mainly in the administrative part. This research is qualitative in nature, characterized as a descriptive case study. The research process was based on the studies carried out by: Heloisa Lück (2000/2005), which discusses the training of school managers and the challenges imposed on school management; Libâneo (2009), which deals with aspects related to school organization and management; Gracindo (2009), which deals with school management focusing on the essence of the education process. The qualitative methodology adopted in this study relied, initially, on bibliographical and documentary research and, later, on collective interview with the managers who graduated from the School of Public Education Managers program, coming from different municipalities of the Amazonas State. The research showed that, although the training moments promoted by SEDUC are of great value for the organization of the school manager’s work, it is necessary that the macrosystem sees them as protagonists of the training processes so that they have an active participation in the elaboration of the proposals, since the tendency is to focus on a more pedagogical approach to the manager's performance while the administrative and organizational demands of the school require equal attention. This study also provided evidence that the schools in the interior municipalities, given their geographical peculiarities, call for a more direct and specific look at the local demands, as well as agility in the communicative process in order to solve the problems arising from the daily operations of a school. Therefore, it is appropriate to provide school managers with a greater participation in the decision-making processes regarding the formulation of training proposals, as well as the emergency demands of the school. Therefore, we propose an Educational Action Plan (PAE) that strengthens the management action and establishes the relation of the training processes of the managers to the form of management and organization of the school.