A gestão educacional em uma escola pública: analisando o atendimento aos alunos com altas habilidades/superdotação

Abstract

This monograph study is linked to the Educational Management Specialization Course of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. The research was undertaken in a Municipality Public School System, which has learners identified as having high abilities/giftedness gift features and whose join a Program of Faculty Incentive. It has as general subject to investigate how a school, through its education management process, organizes its administrative and pedagogic proposes to promote the development of the gifted learners’ potentialities. The theoretical input for this research is grounded in Libâneo; Oliveira; Toschi (2005), Lück (2006), Aranha (2005), Renzulli (2004), amongst others, as well as in the Public Policies at international, national and state level related to the high abilities/giftedness issue. The research goes on in a qualitative approach, like case study and uses as tools the documents research, with the school Pedagogic Policy Project analysis and School Statutes, a half-structured interview with the gifted learners’ teachers and a halfstructured with a school coordination member, and class observations. It was possible to identify that aiding law to the high abilities/giftedness offers some supports to the school to organize itself to attend the gifted learners, but it is necessary to the school to know such laws and to use them as a support to the education work. At the time, the school pedagogic policy project shall be a document where the scholar community has to propose teaching alternatives, founding ways of think the high abilities and the education management.