Gestão escolar e motivação docente: uma relação intrínseca e determinante para a qualidade educacional

Abstract

This research, from the problem that is identified in the questioning: in what ways and to what extent the attitudes and decisions of school administrators affect the motivation of teachers in their work?, aims to verify the relationship between motivation of children education teachers and management model held in the school environment. Inspired by a school with demands concerning the issue, it is a case study with a qualitative approach, which relies on literature and field research, whose subjects are teachers and staff of the school mentioned. The theoretical framework presents two approaches: historical journey of the Brazilian children education from the earliest conceptions that guided their practices to the current consensus on the quality of democratic management; conceptions of motivation to work and views on its origin and influences. The field survey brought responses that converge to the theoretical elucidation: although the motivation is personal and subjective, the work environment, especially the form of management which it is practiced in, is one of the external factors that strongly influences and, in the case of school management, this has also the potential to limit or expand the awareness of teachers, a crucial fact to the quality of education.