Administrador ou gestor: uma questão em debate

Abstract

This monograph has focused on the change of educational administration to school management in an Elementary School in the Metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil – implemented by School Principals, Pedagogic Coordinators and Educational Leaders. Aiming to achieve the purpose of the present research, interviews have been carried out with both directive and pedagogic teams. For that, the investigation has analyzed the understanding of the subjects about the purpose of changes in the school administration system to school management. The comprehensive analysis of the theme was sought support in theoretical intakes between the main authors analyzed: Ferreira (2004), Libâneo (2009), Lück (2006 e 2007), Paro (2003 e 2007), Sanches (2005) and Santos (2005). Based on both the considerations derived from the theoretical references investigated and the analysis of the semi- structured interviews made with six subjects, it became evident that the participant professionals of the research recognize the proposal of democratic, school management repositions in a new profile on the exercise of its practice. In this case, the Principal, the Pedagogic Support and the Coordination Sectors do recognize such practice and its specific functions, and the rational that permeates its practice is now a different one, in other words, it is no more grounded in an authoritarian, burocratic, isolated, centralized position. On the contrary, their initiatives are now guided by a participatory, democratic, decentralized rational, in an attempt to evolve the school’s community in a collective, horizontal, interactive and formative work, so as to be inserted within the democratic principles, at last.