A pandemia de Covid-19 e a gestão escolar: o que as pesquisas acadêmicas revelam

Abstract

This research is characterized as a monographic study developed linked to the Graduate Program in Public Policies and Educational Management, at the Federal University of Santa Maria, at the specialization level. It aimed to analyze which perspectives were identified in the research carried out on the impact of the pandemic on school management in the years 2020 to 2023. The research problem is: what are the impacts identified in the research that were generated due to the pandemic and how school management managed the education in this time of adversity. The methodological theoretical framework was based on studies by Paro (2016), Brandão (2004), Gadotti (2015), to conceptualize education and school management in Brazil and Sander (2007), which points out the dimensions of school management, and in Morosini (2015), carrying out the “State of Knowledge” which consists of selecting, analyzing and problematizing academic productions from the Annotated Bibliography, Systematized Bibliography and Categorized Bibliography stages. As search repositories, the catalog of theses and dissertations was used, which include data from the Sucupira platform, the Digital Library of Dissertations and Theses (BDTD) and the repository of scientific articles from the Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo). It was possible to verify that among the selected dissertations and theses, 65% of the researches were carried out in private institutions and 80% of the researches in institutions located in the South and Southeast. Among the results found, it was possible to perceive the rupture between the administrative and pedagogical dimensions, as well as the expressive way in which the pedagogical dimension was impacted by the Covid 19 pandemic. pedagogical coordination and teachers, the centralization of decisions and actions by the management team, the emptying of education professionals due to the risks, the concern of the management teams with the families of students in situations of social vulnerability, among others. It was possible to conclude that school administrations faced these impacts of the pandemic, based on their reality and doing their best to adapt to the moment and maintain the functioning of schools, thus creating new strategies that were significant for the return to face-to-face classes.