Abstract

SOUSA, Esmeraldina Januário de  and  VIDAL, Eloisa Maia. Fortaleza municipal network principals: findings on school management. Roteiro [online]. 2020, vol.45, e23212.  Epub Aug 28, 2020. ISSN 2177-6059.  https://doi.org/10.18593/r.v45i0.23212.

This paper analyzes aspects related to school management with as reference understandings about democratic and participatory management and some issues present in the questionnaires Evaluation of Basic Education (Saeb), applied by the National Institute of Educational Studies Teixeira (Inep) in 2017, having as clipping the municipal network of Fortaleza, capital of Ceará. They are data of 244 directors and 3.351 teachers being 1.805 of the 5th years and 1.546 of the 9th years, which were decompressed in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and worked with use of sum of variables, descriptive statistics and, in some cases, with correlation analysis. The results show that more than 3/4 of the schools has School Council composed of all segments of the community; about 2/5 of the directors states there are external interference in management and 4/5 is frequently discussing with teachers measures to improve teaching and learning. Teachers have a positive view on school management in the pedagogical, administrative and interpersonal dimension, however, when analyzing responses from directors and teachers to the same question, the results are inconsistent, pointing to the need to investigate such contradictions.

Keywords : Democratic and participatory management; Saeb contextual questionnaires; School management; Municipal network; Fortaleza..

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