Educação continuada na gestão universitária: o caso do mestrado Profissional em Políticas Públicas e Gestão da Educação Superior (POLEDUC)

Abstract

Continuing education has been a powerful mechanism in addressing the issues brought to light by the world at full boil, especially with re gard to changes. They require continuous human learning both related to formal education suc h as the ongoing improvement of academic and professional training. In this context , are the Masters Professionals who have as main objective to equip workers cognitive tools and practices to adequately perform activities in the organizations in which they work. The Federa l University of Ceará (UFC), Higher Education Institution (HEI), congregates in the tea ching, research and outreach, strategic management, thereby creating in 2005 a Masters in P ublic Policy and Management in Higher Education (POLEDUC), aiming present planning proces ses and innovative management that would boost the academic and administrative UFC, to improve its educational policies and management with efficient mechanisms of institution al interaction and the external environment. Thus the implementation of the said Ma ster, since 2005, important to know how the products are being used this model of continuin g education and practical knowledge produced concrete changes to the implementation of new strategies in managing the UFC. In this sense, this research, qualitative, quantitativ e and descriptive, it is proposed to evaluate the results achieved by POLEDUC as a mechanism for cont inuing education, as well as the changes produced in the graduates and strategic man agement of the UFC. In the results, there are indications, that the consistent POLEDUC is a g ood mechanism for continuing education, so the Federal University of Ceará is a learning in stitution and contributed positively in life of graduates, given that these have built new knowledg e of strategic management innovative. But despite the significant change in the professio nal activities of graduates, there are no indications of changes introduced in university man agement, in view of the low level of use of the knowledge generated in the dissertations, fo r the improvement of professional practices and management in order that the creation of the co urse was anchored on a policy of ongoing training of servers UFC and similar institutions an d partners.