A qualidade do ensino na dimensão da gestão escolar democrática: um estudo de caso na EMEB Alfredo Naime a partir do INDIQUE

Abstract

SALVETTI, T.A.S. The educational quality in democratic school management dimension: a case study in Municipal School Alfredo Naime from INDIQUE. 2011. 98f. Dissertation (Master's Program) – Faculdade de Economia, Administracao e Contabilidade de Ribeirao Preto, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, 2011. The democratic school management is seen as an indispensable element of educational quality by several authors and education professionals. However, they also recognize the enormous gap between a democratic ideal and the reality of school administration, especially in this case, the Brazilian situation. Given the evident importance of this issue to the national arena of education and teaching, this study aimed to analyze this dimension of quality from the case study at the Municipal School of Basic Education Alfredo Naime, from the city of Bebedouro, which has passed by the assessment procedures proposed in the INDIQUE (2009), prepared by the partnership: Educational Action, UNICEF, UNDP, INEP and MEC, which corresponded to the scientifically and methodologically perspectives of this research. For the analysis were used information of the Plan Manager of the school and especially the report generated by the Educational Quality Indicators process in the school. Were also made follow-school activities as well as semi-structured and unstructured interviews to all major actors from the school (students, parents, teachers, managers and employees) in order to collect opinions and perspectives of those interviewed on the subject. It was concluded that, despite restrictions mainly external, but internal too, to a democratic school management, the school actors of Municipal School Alfredo Naime showed that tend to a democratizing management. The other main finding relates to Educational Quality Indicators, that proved to be a rich collective assessment tool, effectively democratic and contributor to the school in various dimensions of education.