Qualidade na educação infantil: um desafio para a gestão escolar

Abstract

This research departs from the conceptions that professionals of Children’s Education, from the public school education in Faxinal do Soturno-RS, have about teaching quality and school management. The aim of this study was to analyze the implications of school management in Children’s Education quality, as well as to recognize the importance of the manager's work in the educational process. Besides, it was aimed to understand the teachers' perceptions about the influence of management on the pedagogic work. Thus, the study gets the school management as the articulating axis and the teachers' speeches about this theme as the referential basis, associated to education quality. Knowing that school management has a wide interference on the knowledge production process, it was aimed to establish a relationship with playing, because many times it is from playing that knowledge happens in this life period. This is characterized as a case study with a qualitative feature, in a Children’s Education School, there were six teachers as the research subjects who work in children’s classes. By analyzing the categories that countersign this study, it was verified that Children’s Education quality is recognized as a process under construction every day, in a collaborative way. More specifically, this group is formed by the school management and the teachers' pedagogic work, they form an inseparable duet struggling to obtain teaching quality.