Gestão estratégica e participativa: uma alternativa para a rede pública municipal de ensino de Juiz de Fora - MG

Abstract

Towards the end of the 1990s, the experiences of choice of school principles, via elections, multiplied in Brazil, with the creation of particular policies in each network. In this context, the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, en 1999, constitutes its city school system and promulgated the law that rules, to this day, the elections that provide the posts of principal and vice-principal of its public network. The choice of principals by means of democratic processes highlights the advances in school management. However, by itself, it cannot conceive an efficient and effective administration. Moreover, the implementation of a management system, based on a dynamic paradigm, implicates a new concept of school management, demanding policies on formation and accompaniment of principals, capable of guaranteeing school autonomy as a means, and not an end in itself, in the pursuit of better educational results. From that perspective, the present study had as its aim to evaluate the policy of selection, formation, support and accompaniment of the city public school network of Juiz de Fora – MG, so that it may be verified possible gaps regarding adequate demands to the system of strategic and participative management, aiming at an intervention proposal on the network. It is a case study, of qualitative approach, which involved documental gathering and analysis; bibliographic research; and field research in six schools of the network; in which it was found a formation and accompaniment still based on purely administrative and bureaucratic matters. Given such conclusion we present an intervention proposal, shaped by means of a Qualification Program on Education Management, having as audience school principals and like actors of the network with the goal of supporting and accompaniment the school management. Such program presents the strategic and participative management as an alternative to the city school network of Juiz de Fora.