Abstract

CARVALHO, Maria João de  and  LOUREIRO, Armando. THE COMPUTER PLATFORM IN THE SCHOOL ORGANIZATION: modernization or bureaucratization?. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2021, vol.11, e020147.  Epub Mar 26, 2022. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2015v1n1id1555.

The growing importance that computer platforms have been acquiring in the school organization requires an understanding of its potential and centrality as an instrument at the service of efficiency and effectiveness, concepts dear to modernity. Its purpose is confused with the overcoming of bureaucracy and, therefore, it will have the function of contributing to an organizational daily life freed from the bonds of control, centralism, standardization and, ultimately, written documents. In this context, and regarding computer platforms, it was our purpose to understand whether they contribute to reinforce or to overcome bureaucracy in the school organization. For this purpose, we carried out a qualitative investigation, which sets up a case study, a Grouping of Schools in the North of Portugal, which involves the principal and teachers with and without charge. The data collection instruments were semi-structured interviews and content analysis was the technique used in data processing. It is possible to conclude that computer platforms intensify bureaucracy by increasing standardization, control, impersonality, by omitting the interlocutor and by valuing technological technicity.

Keywords : Computer platforms; Bureaucracy; School organization.

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