A FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA DOS DIRETORES ESCOLARES DA REDE ESTADUAL DE EDUCAÇÃO EM GOIÁS.

Abstract

The present study lies in the field of educational management, aimed to analyze the ongoing training of school managers in the linked primary and secondary schools of Goiás State Education board located in Goiania. We assume that the direction is a dimension of management, responsible for collective articulation of the political-pedagogical project and the teaching-learning process in a democratic perspective. Thus, we consider that the principal of basic education schools have an important role in the formation of a quality service, to help to ensure the intermediation between school education and policies running on each government. In that sense, the need for such research is to understand some of the paradoxes that make up the school management as a public policy and professional field. While executing the literature search to identify the specific production and the educational management, we find that there are few studies that look specifically at continuing education courses which would allow the principals to understand its forms, difficulties and challenges, their conceptions as well as its successful experiences. We define as a general objective to understand the work and the training of educational principals in primary and secondary schools, and the specific objectives of: 1) outline the policies and the curriculum present in continuing education courses offered by the State Department of Education; 2) analyze guiding conceptions of educational management in schools and within the SDE policies; 3) contribute to the theming and theme analysis as well as display elements that can support the development and implementation of courses and training programs for school principals. The research sought to be based on historical materialism and dialectical method. Under this view, the research process involved a dialectical and critical knowledge of reality, which means that criticism and critical knowledge are essential for transforming practice, both in terms of knowledge, as in the historical-social plan. The research had quantitative and qualitative character and had the participation of 32% of principals of the Goiás State Education Department in the city of Goiânia. We used semi-structured questionnaire developed for this study, with 16 closed questions and five opened ones, its goal was to compose, through the collected data, a range of knowledge and information that could contribute to the reflection and analysis of the object under study, considering the ongoing issue, with principals who participated. Individuals surveyed when thinking and reflecting on the training offered in this course, could record the reality and still provide a sample of this reality lived in it, which led to an understanding of the questions posed by the course, training and even into the everyday of educational management. We conclude that there are training programs for principals, but there is still no public policy formation. In the search for interpretation of data collected from the analysis and theoretical review we used the content analysis. It was the researcher s option, by the time limit, to examine only closed questions and it would be appropriate if the opened questions served as a starting point for the research s continuity of their studies or for other researchers.