Knowledge Management and the Political–Pedagogical Project in Brazilian Schools

Andréia De Cássia Gonçalves Costa,Radu Godina,Cristiane Resquiti Paulino Strozzi,Letícia Fleig Dal Forno,Florinda Matos,Rejane Sartori

doi:10.3390/su13052941

Abstract

Knowledge Management as a strategy to improve the quality of the institutional environment can be related to the coordination of activities that create, store and share knowledge. School Management has to deal with different tasks, such as planning, organization, leadership, guidance, monitoring and evaluation of all the processes necessary to ensure the promotion of students’ learning and training. In this context, the Political–Pedagogical Project assists School Management, since it is an important document for the school organization, containing the school’s identity as well as the plan to achieve the best teaching and learning process for the school community. In this sense, the objective of this research was to demonstrate how the Political–Pedagogical Project can promote Knowledge Management at the school level. The methodology used was exploratory and bibliographic research. The results obtained in this paper show that the Political–Pedagogical Project strengthens School Management when it is supported by Knowledge Management, considering that there is an improvement in the promotion of the quality of the organizational environment, as well as the elucidation of effective learning for teachers and students through democratic management.

Highlights

As a result of the growing pressures that the educational sector has been experiencing, researchers have increased their attention on Knowledge Management’s potential in education, since it can be used to improve learning and research processes [1,2]
Based on the objective that guided this study, it was possible to highlight the need for the Political–Pedagogical Project to strengthen School Management supported by Knowledge Management in order to achieve an improvement in the promotion of the quality of the organizational environment as well as the elucidation of effective learning for teachers and students through democratic management
Through organizational practices and processes, Knowledge Management contributes to the effective sharing of knowledge, providing improvements in the quality of teaching throughout the school space

Summary

Introduction

As a result of the growing pressures that the educational sector has been experiencing, researchers have increased their attention on Knowledge Management’s potential in education, since it can be used to improve learning and research processes [1,2]. This study is based on the assumption of bringing closer theories of Knowledge Management in the context of education, analyzing the appropriate approaches in educational organizations, which here will be addressed as schools. It is focused on an association through the approach of taxonomy as a resource that causes the systematization of information for decision-making in organizations. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2941 analysis and study of the Political–Pedagogical Project was highlighted as a systematization instrument of the function, the organization and the school’s performance. An analysis of Knowledge Management in the context of education is presented, analyzing the appropriate approaches in educational organizations and highlighting the Political–Pedagogical. The last section contains the conclusions of this study, followed by the references used

Knowledge and Knowledge Management

School Management

Knowledge Management and School Management

Knowledge Management and Educational Actions

The Political–Pedagogical Project and School Organisation

Conclusions