Infraestrutura escolar: o que dizem os gestores escolares sobre seus impactos no ensino?

Abstract

The budgetary crisis lived by the state of Rio de Janeiro (2014 – 2016), made the school units from the educational system of the state of Rio de Janeiro, stop receiving funds for preventive, corrective or emergency maintenance, what has deteriorated its infrastructure, since the usage of these spaces are daily. Upon this scenario, it is urgent the necessity from the public management to make use of new methods and tools that allow the public managers to make a responsible, sustainable and isonomical use of the resources. Our scenario is going to be the Educational State Secretariat, the 4th biggest educational system of the country in terms of school units, as there are about 1.230 schools that offer mainly high school, a mandatory step of the Basic Education. Looking after the infrastructure of the school units is one of the pilars to uphold what is provided for in the Law of Guidelines and Basics of the Education to guarantee a minimum pattern of quality. Therefore, this research has as its central theme the relationship between school infrastructure and its impacts on teaching, with the main objective of verifying whether investments applied in school infrastructure can reflect on performance. The methodological approach of the research will be Qualitative-Quantitave, with the gathering of statistic data and interviews on the scool managers, analyzing the responses through the thecnique of the colective subject speech associated with the theory of Social Representations. We hope to investigate also, if the investments in school infrastructure, contribute for the students academical performance and the disminishing of abandonment fees. The educational product to be developed is going to be a School Infrastructure Manual, targeted to school managers and the educational systems, made from the experience of the Work Report of School Infrastructure developed by Educatinal State Secretariat and the hearings of the ones involved in this investigation and the analysis of its representations about topics that relate to the aimed theme.