A construção de conhecimento sobre a temática da gestão educacional: um estudo com acadêmicas do curso de pedagogia da UFSM

Abstract

This study is connected with the research line Management of the School Organization of Education Management Degree, of Education Center, UFSM. With this research, was sought to understand the student’s Pedagogy Degree concepts, about the Educational Management. The main authors that guided the research were Libâneo (2005), Ferreira (2003), Lück (2006, 2007, 2008), Alarcón (2001), Marcelo García (1999), Woodward (1998, 2008), Mizukami (2002), Bolzan (2002, 2007), Bolzan and Isaia (2005), and any others. This was a qualitative research and the reflective interview was the research tool, led by semi-structured interviews, while the data are produced by the interaction of the research subject and the researcher. Was used the document analysis technique to describe the student’s discourse. The speeches was organized in some categories, believing they do not constitute a static process to analyze the recurrences that appear in the statements. Thus, four dimensions emerged: Educational Management, Public Policy, Management Functions and Early Stage Formation – experiences with the disciplines related to the subject of management. Through the produced data, it was revealed that there are confusions and contradictions in the student’s statements when they talk about the administration and management paradigms. In many cases, there isn’t a consistent knowledge about it, because it was verified that the characteristics and actions of these two paradigms are not clear to them. Besides, the disciplines inefficiency on some topics is also perceived in the statements that express contradictions, and when they perceive non existence opinion about the topics. Therefore, we conclude that there is a need to reorganize the formation process. However, this is not a reality to the undergraduate level only, but also to the postgraduate course. We believe that the researches should focus on the teaching job to improve the professionals quality and contribute to the formation process in this area. After all, is essential to look for new methodologies and other approaches to the management issue, in the search for new ways and meaningful learning.