As contribuições do curso de especialização em Gestão Educacional da UFSM para a compreensão e prática da gestão escolar

Abstract

Considering the importance of training in the process of consolidating democracy in school and the need to assess the scope of the proposals in this direction, we sought to examine how the graduates of the specialization in Educational Management UFSM have come to interpret and implement the knowledge built during this training. There was a qualitative research study of multicasos to understanding the facts and contextualize them. With the data collected through the questionnaire, the analysis process was accomplished by content analysis technique to collect and analyze documents relating the desired profile of democratic management and the reality investigated. Thus, it can be noted, that the training provided through the course of specialization in Educational Management enabled mainly the recognition of the teacher as the school manager, independent of the function performed in school, whereas in democratic management all teachers are managers of the school. This is a first step to participation in school management, an essential condition for democratization.