Gestão escolar - para uma práxis transformadora : uma escola pública inovadora EMEF. Desembargador Amorim Lima

Abstract

This job aims to propose a reflection on the subjects roles in regards to the school’s transformation. The field of investigation was a project at a inovative public school at São Paulo city, that has broken the traditional paradigms even though being part the municipal school system. Inspired in the “Escola da Ponte”, walls had been pulled down, fences had been broken and a Project had been implemented to support the (re)construction of the school into a model to fulfill the main internal and external yearnings of the community, a everyone’s school and for everyone. With a remarkable democratic participation, with a differentiated building structure the school has an educational policy through cycles and self-researches. They make round tables to discuss topics and define responsibilities, so everyone is on the same page. Teachers are tutors and the relatives are mostly present. The volunteer work is well accepted and practiced by many. All those changes have as main elements the management and the intention to have a praxis of transformation in that space, creating identity and daily (re)constructing the school as they want to have. For this research, semi-structured interviews had been performed with relatives, students, teachers, managers and government employee during April/May, 2015.Thereby aiming to fulfill the purpose of the research, an exploratory and qualitative approach (Barros & Lehfeld, 1990) has been chosen, a technique of non-probability sampling strategies (Cooper & Schindler, 2011) with a methodical data collection based on Bardin (2009) has been used in the prerogative to understand and analyze how innovative changes involving the school management team impacts at the development of the school. At the end of the research process and completion of this work, we understand that the school management has considerable importance in the realization of this project. This project is working nearly 20 years ago.