Organização e gestão da formação continuada dos professores de língua portuguesa no âmbito municipal: impasses e possibilidades

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the organization and management of actions for continuing education for teachers of Portuguese Language from 6th to 9th grade of Secondary School along the period of 2005 to 2008 in a city of Grande Dourados / MS - Brazil - in the perspective of a democratic management. It was also questioned how the teachers and managers have realized this process. It is a qualitative study. It was noticed that the education given by the City Office of Education is strongly defined by courses and lectures which somehow update the teachers, that is, enlighten, but it does not make possible an appropriate reflexion and neither an empowerment for the school collective. The management of educational actions addressed for Portuguese Language teachers is a rational technique; they are supposed to be well skilled for teaching as they are given scientific knowledge and techniques. Educational actions are fragmented, punctual, with date, local and theme previously determined by the City Office of Education; schools and teachers do not take part directly, besides the Office does not provide any commitment in a way to improve the pedagogical practice, neither by the Office itself nor by the ones involved in the actions. Teachers and managers´ conception is that, the continuum formation is a quick update which contributes significantly for the change of the pedagogical practice. Thus, the analyses point out for the necessity of experiences at schools which enlarge the political participation of social actors in order to get a better base to accomplish the constitutional principle of the democratic management, as qualitatively, in building a democratic and inclusive school.