O programa de formação continuada para gestores escolares da CEFEB e seus efeitos nas escolas municipais do estado do Ceará

Abstract

This study belongs to the field of educational management and analyzes the continuing education of school leaders of the municipal network of Ceará, based on the approach of school management, which is based on current education legislation. Efforts are made to find out the contributions of the Specialization in School Management promoted by the State Coordination of School Executives for Basic Education Training (CEFEB), carried out in partnership with the Secretary of Education of the municipalities of G1 Group between 2010 and 2012. Thus, the objective of this study is to investigate the possible contributions of this training in the improvement of Basic Education in the state of Ceará, in particular, in the cities surveyed. This research was developed in a qualitative perspective and it is based on the dialectical method of analysis, where the contradiction category allows the apprehension of reality in its multiple determinations. In order to answer the research question, the following sources were used, among others: Antunes (2010 and 2013); Alves (2007); Harvey (1993); Mészáros (2002); Shiroma et al (2004); Peroni (2003); Behring (2008); Frigotto (2003), Libâneo (2003), Paro (1998, 2002, 2010 and 2014); Vasconcelos (1995); Lück (1997); Dourado (2002, 2007); Saviani (2006, 2008, 2009). The study showed that the course contributed to improve Basic Education in Ceará, but it was decisive to increase the cultural level of the trainees, especially the school administrators attended by this program. It has shown that, although there is a general orientation at the level of discourse, materialized by the presence of specific elements of the neoliberal proposals for education, there is a fragmentary character in Ceará’s educational policy that includes advances and setbacks characterized by a conception of an inconsistent administration/management, which in the normative field oscillates between the democratic management and the managerial administration.