A gestão de um curso de extensão a distância: relação através dos marcos legais

Abstract

With the ever-growing offer of Distance Education in undergraduate and Continuing Education Courses in universities, as well as the necessity of a interdependency and shared efforts amongst systems/networks/institutions of basic education, it is evident the importance of investigating the interrelated theme on management of a distance outreach course and the quality of continuing education of Municipalities’ educational counselors. Our intention is, in this sense, relate actions management an extension distance course with legal assumptions that underlie. The methodology used was a study case and documental analysis, with a qualitative and quantitative approach. It can be pointed out from the data construction and analysis that the quality of pedagogical management requires that the team prioritizes the precepts the shared management to the development of planning actions, organization and assessment of technical and methodological guidelines related to teaching and learning processes in the AVEA. It is considered that the Pro-Council/UFSM’s management aims the assumptions of a democratic management, with the participation of the whole team, since planning, organization, monitoring and assessment of course attendees and the course itself. The principles that permeate the management processes in the routine of outreaching actions, developed by UFSM in Rio Grande do Sul are power decentralization, team autonomy, transparency and debureaucratization.