O perfil dos diretores e da gestão de escolas públicas urbanas das capitais brasileiras: um estudo a partir do SAEB 2003

Abstract

This paper aimed to show the evolution of the school administration concept up to the point it became management, the main models of school management found in the educational literature: participative, shared and democratic management. The paper had the objective to understand not only the profile of the directors and of the management of the public and urban schools in Brazil but also the way those features relate themselves to the average socioeconomic characteristics of the students from those schools. The study used the data from the National System of Evaluation in Basic Education SAEB 2003, considering the first grades of elementary school. The analysis was based on uni or bivariate descriptive statistics. The results were analyzed according to the specific literature. The resulting data from the aanalysis of the variables from SAEB 2003 were confronted with theoretical information researched on that theme. This research had its main theoretical basis on the ideas of Anísio Teixeira, José Quirino Ribeiro and Vitor Henrique Paro, Lauro C. Wittman, Heloisa Luck, Jaap Scheerens as to school administration and its evolution to school management; Pam Sammons together with Fatima C. Alves, Creso Franco, Alícia Bonamino, Francisco C. Gomes and the official documents from SAEB contributed to the studies for the construction of the profile of the Brazilian director and its management with the selected variables from SAEB 2003 and the understanding of the concept of effective schools. The research revealed that for a good performance in quality management, the conquering of characteristics in the educational system is needed, it involves the participation, autonomy and decentralization.