Qualidade da educação: análise do perfil dos gestores escolares da rede pública municipal de Vila Nova dos Martírios – MA

Abstract

The presente study, linked to the Postgraduate Program in Education (PPGE) of the State University of Maranhão (UEMA), in the Research Line "Educational and School Management", aims to present the results achieved by the research, whose objective is to analyze the quality indicators and the actions of the school managers of the municipal public network of Vila Nova dos Martírios - MA, in view of the quality of education offered in the municipality's public network, in an attempt to understand the possible contributions to the quality of education within the scope of actions at school, taking into account the principles of democratic management, defined in the 1988 constitution and in LDBEN 9. 394/96. The theoretical and conceptual contributions that corroborate the theme of this work are: Dourado and Oliveira (2007, 2009), Hora (2007), Libâneo (2008, 2012), Luck (2012, 2013), Nóvoa (2019, 2022), Paro (2010), among others. The research is in line with the qualitative approach (GOLDENBERG, 2013), and the empirical investigation was carried out using semi-structured interviews. It had the collaboration of nine managers and eighteen teachers from nine schools belonging to the municipal network of Vila Nova dos Martírios-MA. The study used content analysis (BARDIN, 2002) as a data analysis procedure, inferring propositions about the object of study, which sought to answer the following question: is the quality of education related to the professional profile of school managers in the municipal public network of Vila Nova dos Martírios - MA? Among the main impressions, we highlight the following: most of the schools surveyed had their managers chosen by political appointment, failing to comply with target 19 of the National Education Plan and target 18 of the Municipal Plan 2014-2024; all the school managers had been in post for less than three years, their first experience in the position, and had not undergone any training before taking up the job. In short, the results presented in this study do not allow us to say whether the profile of school managers in Vila Nova dos Martírios-Ma is related to the quality of education, taking into account, in addition to the evidence already reported, the IDEB results obtained by the schools against the targets set by the MEC, considering other factors that contribute to the quality of education, such as: the work and training of teachers, human and material resources, facilities and structures, etc. As a contribution to this study, we propose the creation of a permanent training center to train school managers as a technical and technological product.