A incidência das políticas de responsabilização do estado do Ceará nas ações de gestão pedagógica em âmbito municipal – o caso da Escola Maria Nair (IPU-CE)

Abstract

The current work was developed as a case study, aims to analyze the correlation between the accountability policy implemented by the State of Ceará in the Northeast region and the results achieved by the municipalities, from the experience of the Maria Nair Martins school, in the municipality of Ipu which is a city in the Ceará state. Although in Brazil educational policies that focus on results and the students learning accountability to the community have been implement since the beginning of the 1990s, in Ceará state this movement began to increase in the years 2000. However, the implementation of several governmental actions of this nature, including the creation of the Literacy Program at the right age (PAICE, 2007) and the school award grade 10 (2009). As a methodology, bibliographical researches has been use, analysis of documents, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires, with teachers, administrators and students’ parents. This work is justified by the shortage of studies and academic productions dealing with incidence of the accountability policy developed in the State of Ceará in the educational actions of the municipalities of Ceará state. Organized in three chapters, this dissertation does not claim to exhaust the subject, however, aims to contribute to the reflection among managers and teachers about the relationship among the results achieved by municipalities and schools and the conceptions that underlie policies for accountability that supports and guide the existing educational policies. Chapter I describes the policies of the State Secretariat for Literacy Education of Ceará and the permanent evaluation system of basic education of Ceará (SPAECE). Chapter II examines in the light of the theoretical author contribution in this area, accountability policies implemented by the State of Ceará and its incidence in the actions implemented by the municipalities. Based on Booke’s contributions (2008, 2006), in which are discussed the concepts of accountability from which is contextualize the accountability in the State of Ceará; on Andrade (2008),it analyze some accountability experiences in Brazil, in states like Minas Gerais and São Paulo, for example, in order to bring the national scenario elements that increase the discussion in context analyzed, in this case the Ceará state; And in Castro (2009), there is attempt reviewing the rating systems in Brazil, once that one of the axes that supports accountability policies is the evaluation; from Bauer (2010), it tries to analyze how the results of evaluations on a wide scale and are used the relations with the accountability. Chapter III, purposeful nature, consists of an Educational Action Plan-PAE- in which the actions and ideas begin to spread with practices developed by the municipality, the schools that are being studied and to all teaching network. Based on the information collected in this case, an action plan has being prepared for dissemination of Educational ideas and practices developed by the school and the municipality under study, as well as to perform other actions that may contribute to the managers and teachers in the discussion on the relations between the accountability policies in the State of Ceará and its Northeast region. The results of the municipality in the sense of improving the students’ learning, such as strengthening the democratic management through the implementation of the Municipal Council of education, the establishment and management of mechanisms that guarantee the school administrative autonomy, as the school Maintenance Fund; the continuity of project school reinforcement in others shifts; the creation of an evaluation system to the municipal education, among others.