Gestão na escola integrada: entre as novas demandas e as propostas de formação

Abstract

This article presents results of a research carried out with school managers who implemented programs to expand the school day in the elementary school stage. The objective was to analyze the relationship between the new demands that are presented for management in these contexts and the proposals for continuing education offered by the education systems for school managers. In the methodological path, a bibliographic and documentary study was carried out and, subsequently, interviews and ethnographic observation were carried out in the research schools. It starts from the perspective that two important movements have been observed in Brazilian education in the last few decades, the adoption of a managerialist model in its management and the definition of the school as a space to promote policies to combat poverty. In this sense, new and complex demands are presented for the school management, which becomes the focus of actions to implement this new agenda. The conclusions point to scenarios in which the focus of the school manager's work and training are based on strategic planning to achieve externally defined goals, on financial and personnel management assuming a central role in school work and distance from the perspective democratic management.