Formação de gestores escolares por competências: um estudo das dimensões político-pedagógica, ética e técnica

Abstract

This research presents a study in two schools of Basic Education of the Federal District (DF) that have as their theme the formation of school managers by competences. The objective was to investigate the relevance of continuing education offered to school managers and the effectiveness of these training courses. The dimensions investigated are guided by an emancipatory and democratic model, which is defended in this writing, as a possible proposal of formation based on political-pedagogical, ethics, and a re-signified technique, for the issue of training by competences, qualitative approach and case study, with observations, semistructured interviews and documentary research. Six members of the State Department of Education of the Federal District participated in the research, who work in school management teams in their respective education units. Theoretical fundamentals pervade the training courses offered in Brazil and in the Federal District, a historical course on the training of managers in Brazil, an approach to training by competences based on theorists such as Heloísa Luck, Vitor Henrique Paro, Marli Andre, Bernardete Gatti, and Zigmunt Baumam, who provide the basis for the study. It is concluded with the research that the formation of managers is still bound to the bureaucratic and administrative perspective, and its effectiveness is not objectively revealed; there is a disconnection with what is studied in the courses and the work context of the managers. The training by competences can configure new approaches to the formative process where the ethical dimension appears with prominence and relevance, and, to give the protagonist of the managers in the continued formation.