A formação dos gestores e a qualidade da educação nas escolas da Arquidiocese de Porto Alegre

Abstract

This research seeks to relate the education process of catholic school principals to the quality of education. The Catholic Schools of Porto Alegre Archdiocese by their principals was the research field to this study. Conserning the principals profile was considered, in this study, the principals professional and academical development at the time before and during the period in which it plays a role in a respective school. The relationship between the principal education process with the quality of education opens the possibility for the articulation of three themes: school management, with focus on managers education; quality of education; and the identity of the Catholic school. This study follows the qualitative methodology, the instruments for data collection used were personal interviews and through an online survey, data analysis was performed from data obtained in interviews and in continuity with the literature search. This research aims to identify the important aspects about the training of school managers and, specifically, the managers of the Catholic school and further analysis on the possible relationship between the management and the quality of education in order to emphasize the values inherent to the identity and Catholic mission school in Brazil. Thus, on the results, it was found that the confessional identity and tradition of the school is the integrating factor between the management model, the manager profile and quality of education.