Abstract

ZANARDINI, Isaura Monica Souza  and  XAVIER, Maria Elizabete Sampaio Prado. The turn of the 21th century and the ramifications of postmodern conceptions of school management. Perspectiva [online]. 2015, vol.33, n.1, pp.263-284. ISSN 2175-795X.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2015v33n1p263.

This paper presents reflections on the reform of school management from the 1990s This reform is implanted under the argument that it is necessary to modernize school management perspective to make it efficient. To develop the analysis performed from literature, the article revisits the replacement of Taylorism/Fordism by the paradigm of flexible accumulation that presents a "new" management and control model. This model would be guided by the ideology of postmodernity. To make this conclusion evident it is important to discuss the logical management/control of labor guided by the post-modern rationality which accompanies the recovery of the ideals of liberalism, trying to show the implications that this logic produces within the school management. It is observed that the school organization incorporates this movement through the diffusion of habits and attitudes and also from the adoption of the elements used by management that develops a set of social organizations. In this sense, some fundamental categories which are essential to the management reform are treated, for instance: the appreciation of the human element, the implementation of evaluation mechanisms, decentralization and autonomy. As one of the highlighted results, it is focused that the tension between the "rationality" treated by postmodernity has ideological basis and aims accountability of individuals for results.

Keywords : School Management; Rationality; Postmodernity.

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