Concepções de educação infantil e suas possíveis implicações na gestão educacional

Abstract

This monograph investigates the children education conception of the manager who works in a teaching institution, with students in the age range between 3 and 5 years old, located in the west zone of the city of Santa Maria, RS, identifying the possible implications of the children education conception in the development of the educational management work. Having the objective of analyzing whether the children education vision influences the acting of the institution manager in overcoming the administrative paradigm for the democratic management. The theoretical approach of this monograph is based on Áries (1986), Bujes (2001) and Kuhlmann Jr. (1998) about the history of the childhood, as well as the studies by Vygotsky and Wallon about the children development and also on the works by Lück (2006) and Ferreira (2001) about educational management. The theoretical approach used has a qualitative character, through demi-structured interviews and document analysis, composed by the study of the Political-Pedagogical Project of the institution researched. The results achieved by this investigation prove that the actions performed in the educational management context are bound to the children education conceptions. It was verified that even with the theoretical advances on the subject children education, within the researched context, the theory supporting the Professional action is the empiricism, by this mean the institution management is marked by the bureaucratic excess, administrative centralization and shallowness of the management theoretical base. It reveals of turning our eye on this reality, considering these issues.