Gestão da escola pública: entre os fundamentos de um programa de formação continuada e a política local

Abstract

This study is based on a survey with 15 students of a distance capacity-building program for school managers. The program took place in some states of Brazilian federation, including Rondônia. It was aimed to improve the educational level of those who were working as managers in public schools from March to December, 2002. They were managers whose activities were based in several public schools in the city of Cacoal, Rondônia. In order to collect data, it was used a semi-structured survey, individually applied. The questions approached several topics: their academic background, the functions they perform, their conceptons around the theories that inform their policies. After the transcription of the tapes, the data collected were organized in categories of analyses. The interpretation of results was based on a theoretical framework taken from the studies of José Carlos Libâneo, Paulo Freire and Vitor Henrique Paro. The analyses of these data made possible the identification of the profile of professionals in activity and their conceptons around the questions of the survey. The outcome of this research presents a path to understand the educationsl management in state of Rondônia. Key words: Public politics; school management; democracy; autonomy; continued formation