Análise da revista Nova Escola Gestão Escolar: o projeto educacional da Fundação Victor Civita

Abstract

This study seeks to analyse the formulations disseminated by Victor Civita Foundation's magazine Nova Escola Gestão Escolar-NEGE published from 2009 to 2014. The guiding questions to this study are the following: what is the education project released by FVC through NEGE? In this project, which are the social roles of the school, the educacional administration and the work done by the school director and coordinators? The general objective was described as follows: to analyze the FVC's formulations disseminated through Nova Escola Gestão Escolar for the Brazilian education, in special those about "school management". To achieve the goals, a documentary research based on the dialectical method was performed. The documentary corpus was constituted by the first twenty-nine issues of the magazine. The research's categories of analysis were the following: purpose of school education, educational administration and educative work. The research is organized in four chapters and the closing remarks. In the first chapter, in addition to defining the categories of analysis, the mapping of the bibliographic production on FVC and its publications is presented. In the second chapter, the aspects of the Brazilian reality which allow to understand Fundação Victor Civita's trajectory from the dictatorial period until 2002 are analyzed with the objective of revealing how this business group was formed and how was its involvement with education. In chapter three, the aspects of the configuration of Brazilian educational policy between Lula da Silva government (2003-2006; 2007-2010) and Dilma Rousseff government (2011-2014) are examined to broaden the understanding of FVC's operation in this period. The fourth chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the documentary corpus. In summary, the research reveals that the formulations contained in the Nova Escola Gestão Escolar magazine are aligned with the perspective of non-critical theories of education. The widespread conception of "scholar management" is affirmed by the "effective management" model whose assumptions are linked to managerial perspective in education. In bringing the school closer the logic of the "business world", the Nova Escola Gestão Escolar magazine reaffirms the technical division of labor and qualifies directors, coordinators and school supervisors as leaders. It is expected that the analysis contained in this study may contribute to the critical reflection about the meaning of the formulations of Nova Escola Gestão Escolar and about the role of Victor Civita Foundation.