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

Abstract

This article is part of a doctoral research completed in August 2011 that aimed to evaluate the syllabus of courses on structure and functioning of basic education, which are offered to undergraduate students of the Federal University of Ceará, and the impacts produced by those courses in the initial education of teachers who want to work with school management. The study got a representative sample of one hundred sixty-seven (167) undergraduate students, five (5) teachers and ten (10) graduate students who, at the time of the survey, worked as educational manager in different institutions (public and private) in Fortaleza city, Ceará - Brazil. It is characterized as a qualitative and quantitative study, including documentary sources and evaluative research. As a theoretical support, we elected, among others, ideas of Ristoff (1995), Vianna (2000), and Bachelard (1996). The results show that the quality of the educational action does not depend solely on the classroom processes, but also on is responsible for the administrative and organizational conduction of those processes, that is, the educational manager and other different actors involved with the educational management. This therefore justifies the need to evaluate these courses and their syllabus in order to see their influence on the professional development of future educational managers who, in turn, also are key elements for the school improvement.