Formação continuada de gestores em Minas Gerais: um estudo a partir da experiência do progestão no município de Uberaba de 2003 a 2006

Abstract

This dissertation is linked to the line of research Politics and Administration in Education, of the Program of Master's degree of University of Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia - MG (FACED). Considering that the professionals' of the education continuous formation is one of the central themes of the education politics in level Federal, State and Municipal, aiming at, second these, the improvement in the quality of the education and the purpose to turn their capable workers to assist the new abilities and competences due to the reforms implemented at the country with the democratization the years 1980 and the external influences. To present he/she researches lens to study the Continuous Formation of School Managers (PROGESTÃO), offered to the school managers of the State Net of Minas Gerais, in the Municipal district of Uberaba, among the period of 2003 and 2006, in elapsing of governor Aécio Neves' first mandate (PSDB). THE same is justified for the important function that exercises the School Manager as the middleman between the school education and the politics in execution in each government. The themes approached in this research, for his/her with context, they were: it reforms of the education among the years of 1980 and 1990, school administration, methodology and operational of PROGESTÃO in Brazil, in Minas Gerais and in the Municipal district of Uberaba, occupational certification and directors' election in Minas Gerais. For the accomplishment of this analysis, in a first moment, there was the wide bibliographical research, on the themes above mentioned, to follow documental research and, in the third and last moment, interviews semi-structured with 10 cursistas of PROGESTÃO of the Municipal district of Uberaba between 2003 and 2006. At the end of the research, the one can be noticed that the politics for managers' continuous formation in national and state level, long for the school institutions and their professionals, qualifying them to assist to the reforms and to cure gaps left by these educators' initial formation. It is ended that the school managers, besides they manage the pedagogic, they should be capable for the financial administration, of the human resources, to understand the education legislation, to preserve the public goods, to look for partnerships and to bring the community for the organs collegiate. New demands of the function that it comes with the decentralization, the autonomy, the flexible and all of the changes that gradual increase happens with the reforms in the education politics to each new State government.