Auto-Avaliação e Planejamento Participativos no Âmbito da Universidade Federal do Ceara (UFC): Em Busca de Saberes e da Mudança de Cultura Institucional

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to investigate the learning and knowledge elaborated in the exercise of auto-evaluation and participative planning at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) environment. In a very specific way, it was meant to build the basis for evaluation culture change. The environments of which the research took part were the payment Subunit of the Human Resources (SHR) and a Subunit of the Administration Directory of the Maternidade Escola Assis Chateaubriand (MEACB). The choice of the environments was due to the fact that they were areas of little or no participative work and auto evaluation identified in the mapping accomplished before the intervention and also to the interest and acquiescence of managers for the accomplishment of the research in the units mentioned above. It was used of interdisciplinarity, several areas of knowledge were integrated aiming to give support to the investigation. It was then made a quali-quantitative study through action research for a year with twelve monthly meetings in two environments or groups, among which the ones from the SRH were composed by nine co-researchers and the ones from the MEAC varied between twelve and fourteen participants. The objective of the meetings was at first, to identify the perception of the groups concerning self-evaluation and participative planning and after that to train them for the permanent exercise of such activities aiming the constitution of new learning and basis to implant the evaluation culture. Besides the general aspects of each unity, we emphasize the most outstanding characteristics of each group. The tools used were questionnaires, texts, dynamics, frequency maps, monthly work plans, semi-structured interviews and key words. During the meetings the groups elaborated small texts and identified new knowledge acquired with the participative auto evaluation practice, justifying facilities, advancement, and surrender. During the target-evaluation, the members of the groups self-evaluated the participation in the meetings in several aspects, among others: the individual and group involvement, acquired knowledge, leadership and the researcher. The results indicate that, after a year of intervention in the groups, it was possible to learn and apply in the practice, some of the acquired knowledge about self evaluation and planning in cooperation that would be good for their personal and professional lives. They lamented the lack of experience, culture, in such space, the absence of the whole unity and of management in the research