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| Author(s): |
Mirna de Lima Medeiros
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2011-07-05 |
| Examining board members: |
João Luiz Passador;
Lara Bartocci Liboni Amui;
Jose Marcelino de Rezende Pinto
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| Advisor: | João Luiz Passador |
| Abstract | |
The efforts made by INEP (Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira) in the last few years to organize database related to Brazilian elementary schools have opened important opportunities of research in this field. By means of a perspective of study focused on management and administrative procedures, seeking to supplement the most classical proposals of research oriented either towards pedagogical aspects or to macroeconomic studies, the effort of the present research seeks to identify characteristics and practices of managers of schools with better relative performances (socio-economic conditions versus students performances in the Prova Brasil) in the assessments of the knowledge of students in elementary public schools, from experiences identified in the state of São Paulo. Being of explorative character, the research is based on multiple-cases study method, more specifically with the use of semi-structured interviewing guidelines technique and critical incident technique; technique of direct systematic observation; and of document analysis in two pairs of schools selected by means of comparison of the performance in the second phase of the Prova Brasil and the schools socio-economic index (SEI), besides other requisites. This type of cases determination enabled the contextualized and compared analysis of a school whose performance was higher than expected and of another whose performance was lower than expected, both in the same city. For data analysis, it was utilized content analysis technique with the aid of Atlas.ti software. The research results and discussion contemplate characteristics and practices of (principal, assistant principal, pedagogical coordinator and school supervisor) as well as relevant contextual factors, pressures and difficulties that end up outlining certain types of actions or even limiting intended actions. More specifically, the following points were covered: managers profiles (origin, age, education, interests, how they reached the position and the reason why they took it, and experience); schools internal and external context (existing representative groups, the way they work; favourability of the organizational environment; importance attached to external assessments; perceived pressures and difficulties and the other contextual factors mentioned); and, at last, ways of working and management practices (management styles; tasks and roles played by managers; job satisfaction; their opinion about education, learners, the contribution of their positions to learners and the differential qualities of the school where they work). These various points were presented in a compared way, pair by pair, and, afterwards records were made of what might be differential factors for a better performance and therefore to contribute to the definition of good management practices dissemination policies, as well as to the organization of school managers training programs. It can be concluded that each school is a particularly complex universe and it can be highlighted that the ability of self-changing and of changing the internal and external environment seems to be present in the management of schools with positive DRE. Additionally, these schools seem to count on a collaborative team as well as participating parents and community. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/03270-3 - School managers: a study of the characteristics and present administrative practices in the management of public schools with better relative performance of the State of São Paulo |
| Grantee: | Mirna de Lima Medeiros |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |