A gestão escolar no contexto da educação do campo: um estudo de caso da Escola São João Batista da ilha do Campompema, no município de Abaetetuba/Pará

Abstract

The present dissertation presents the results of a case study of the ethnographic type of a rural school, whose school management is a reference in the municipality where it is located, and which serves a community of one of the largest islands in the region. The school in question is known for its remarkable trajectory of organization and struggles for better teaching conditions for its population. The method used during field research included semi-structured interviews with the various segments of the school community, participant observation and documentary analysis of the Pedagogical Political Project of the school unit. The field research was a challenge to understand the school and society conception that the school management of a rural school, in this riverside case, has, and what form of organization and management it uses for the accomplishment and success of their educational process. It aimed to analyze how the school and its subjects organize themselves to the viability of their educational objectives, and also, if the school constitutes a strategic space for the social development of the community where it is inserted. In summary, the study showed how the practices of organization and management of the school unit lead the school process to the expectations of its community, from a perspective of democratic-participative school management, which emphasized the strategic role of school management for quality education, and for social change in the context of rural education.