Avaliação de disciplinas em favor da formação de professores: contribuições do ensino superior para a gestão educacional

Abstract

This article derives from a doctoral research completed in August 2011 that aimed to evaluate the program structure Area disciplines and operation of basic education, offered for undergraduate courses of the Federal University of Ceará and the impacts they produce to the initial training of teachers who will hold positions related to school management. The study included a representative sample of 167 (one hundred sixty-seven) graduate students; Five (05) teachers and ten (10) graduates who, at the time of the survey, occupying the Educational Manager function in different institutions of the public sphere and private in the city of Fortaleza-CE. It is characterized as a qualitative and quantitative study; characterized as a documentary and evaluative research. Was elected as theoretical support, among others, Ristoff (1995), Vianna (2000), Bachelard (1996). The results show that the quality of the educational process does not depend solely on the process developed in the classroom, but is also subject to the actions of those who make the administrative and organizational conduct of this process: in this case, the educational manager and different players that support to the functions related to the management of education. Hence the need to evaluate these subjects with a view to the influence that these have on the formation of future educational managers, who in turn are key to school success.