Gestão escolar vencedora: conceitos e concepções de gestor na escola pública

Abstract

The main role of education in the development of individuals and societies has been enlarged in the new Millennium, and it points to the need of constructing a school towards the citizen’s formation. Thus, for a better comprehension on how the educational process has been triggered, we try to evaluate the understanding of the school management/winner present in the school managers: in the Escola Estadual de Ensino Médio Mário Quintana/RS and Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Arlindo Luiz Osório/RS so that some reflection moments are provided in order to articulate a better development of the school management. Therefore, for this purpose, we interviewed 6 professors from both schools. These interviews brought out some subsidies so that we could discuss about the issues that permeate the school management. A Management in which this study showed some links with the process of management by considering that this is still found in some schools in the educational system. In order to systematize the data presented, we achieved an evaluation based on the Content Analysis. In this evaluation, we established four categories, namely: 1- Organization of a democratic management; 2-Dedication to education/learning; 3- Funds and equipments needed; 4-Professional and institutional appreciation. These categories provide to us some discussions that made us to observe, according to some manager professors’ arguments, participating in this research, that for a school to be considered as winner, it is imperative that it has a manager that searches for quality in education to their students, furthermore, that the manager is conscious that it is not possible to conquest anything alone, and that he or she depends on the collaborators who make part of the school community in order to reach a common objective of improvement of school and education qualification.