This study explores the question of how educational bureaucracies impact school efficacy, from the perspectives of senior administrators, a group made up of superintendents and assistant superintendents. The literature review defines the terms educational bureaucracy and systems coupling, which provide a theoretical framework for the study and serve as a lens through which the data, anecdotal reports contextualized by real-life experiences, are analyzed and the theme of school efficacy is explored. Understanding the unique perspective of the senior administrator’s role with regards to educational bureaucracy and its impact will provide a basis from which the structure of school systems is explored more deeply, and the ways in which systems coupling and elements of bureaucratic structures might be used as tools to improve school efficacy. The aim of this study is to better understand the specific functions of educational bureaucracies that have a perceived and/or measured effect on school efficacy. Rather than using a uniform measure of school efficacy, which could serve to limit the experiences shared by participants, the secondary aim of this study is to develop possible definitions/conceptualizations of school efficacy based on the anecdotal reports provided by participants, through the application of grounded theory. The findings of this study and the implications for practice will be of interest to those studying the sociological foundations of education and to stakeholders who wish to know more about the functioning of educational bureaucracies at the systemic level, and how they impact school efficacy.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-02-02T14:27:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 denisealessandrapalharesdinizmoraes.pdf: 817778 bytes, checksum: 4cae8c94fb1a7b8bf5cdd66029239b56 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-02-03T11:19:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 denisealessandrapalharesdinizmoraes.pdf: 817778 bytes, checksum: 4cae8c94fb1a7b8bf5cdd66029239b56 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-03T11:19:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 denisealessandrapalharesdinizmoraes.pdf: 817778 bytes, checksum: 4cae8c94fb1a7b8bf5cdd66029239b56 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-05 / - / The present research aimed to investigate which were the managing courses of action taken at a school located at an adverse social context with high social vulnerability, so that its students reached satisfactory achievement levels in systemic assessment. To do so we investigated the managing courses of action implemented in the three year period 2009/2011 which enabled the students’ satisfactory achievement in the assessment: municipal assessment – Avalia BH, state assessment – Program of Literacy Assessment (PROALFA, in Portuguese) and federal assessment by the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC, in Portuguese) – Basic Education Development Index (IDEB, in Portuguese). We found three interconnected factors which are responsible for the school’s efficacy: the organization of the management, focusing on the leadership of the management team, the pedagogical emphasis and the good school atmosphere present in the unit in question. The school management was analyzed from theoretical references of Heloísa Lück, Mônica Peregrino, Marcelo Burgos, Thelma Polon, Pam Sammons, Franco and Bonamino among other authors who deal with school efficacy in contexts of high social vulnerability. Aiming to improve the management in such school, as well as to ensure the improvement of the quality of education at white public school in the snow, we outlined a Program of Improvement in School Management based on the researcher’s professional experience, considering the core factors that were responsible for the satisfactory results of the students and, consequently, the school efficacy.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-04T13:57:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 eunidescarneiroaraujo.pdf: 1278837 bytes, checksum: ab2151d091acb3569cc527a0f7196280 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-04-24T04:07:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 eunidescarneiroaraujo.pdf: 1278837 bytes, checksum: ab2151d091acb3569cc527a0f7196280 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-24T04:07:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 eunidescarneiroaraujo.pdf: 1278837 bytes, checksum: ab2151d091acb3569cc527a0f7196280 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-15 / A presente dissertação teve como objetivo investigar como as ações adotadas por uma equipe gestora contribuíram para a elevação dos índices de proficiência em uma escola de educação profissional. A relevância da pesquisa se deve ao fato da melhora significativa dos alunos nos índices de proficiência acadêmicos ao longo do triênio 2009 a 2011. Esse fato despertou o interesse em pesquisar se o modelo de gestão adotado contribuiu para os resultados positivos. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, foram descritos os elementos centrais da Política de Educação Profissional implementada no Estado do Ceará; feita a caracterização da escola; apresentado o modelo de gestão adotado, assim como os resultados obtidos. Para a apresentação dessas informações foram investigados os documentos que institucionalizam a política, bem como a documentação, da escola e dados dos questionários aplicados aos alunos, pais e professores. Feita a investigação partiu-se para a análise dos seguintes elementos: Gestão Democrática Participativa, Fatores de Eficácia escolar, e Avaliações em Larga escala. Para fundamentar o referencial teórico foram utilizados os seguintes autores: Lutzki, Ferreira, e Lima com relação à parte conceitual de gestão; Franco, Bonamino, Mintzberg, Senge e Lück, no que diz respeito às escolas eficazes; Becker e Brooke sobre as políticas de educação em larga escala. Após o desenvolvimento da análise foi elaborado uma Proposta de Intervenção como forma de auxiliar outros gestores a buscar inspiração para criarem seus próprios modelos de gestão. O Plano de Ação foi fundamentado em três eixos, a saber: Gestão Democrática Participativa, Eficácia escolar e Clima escolar. Esses eixos foram escolhidos principalmente com base na teoria da Gestão Participativa, porque se entende ser o fio condutor de todas as ações de uma escola que pretende ser democrática; a eficácia escolar, porque se pretende alcançar a excelência; e o clima escolar, porque se acredita ser este um eixo que baliza as demais atividades intraescolares. / The present dissertation had as its goal to investigate how the actions conducted by a management team contributed to the increase in the academic performance levels at a school of professional education. The relevance of the research is due to the significant improvement of the students’ academic performance levels through the years 2009-2011. Such fact awakened the interest to research if the management system adopted contributed to the positive results. In order to develop the research we described the core elements of the Professional Education Policy implemented in the State of Ceará; characterized the school; presented the management system adopted there, as well as the obtained results. To present these pieces of information we investigated the documents that institutionalized the policy, as well as school documents and data from a survey conducted with the student body, parents and teachers. Once the investigation was conducted we began the analysis of the following elements: Participative Democratic Management; Factors in School Efficacy, High Stakes Assessment. In order to fundament the theoretical reference we utilized the following authors: Lutzki, Ferreira, and Lima regarding the conceptual part of management; Franco, Bonamino, Mintzberg, Senge and Lück, in regards to efficacy in schools; Becker e Brooke regarding large scale educational policies. After conducting the analysis we elaborated an Intervention Plan as a way to help other managers to look for inspiration in creating their own management systems. The Action Plan was built on three axis: Participative Democratic Management; School Efficacy and School Climate. Such axis were chosen mainly based on the theory of Participative Management, understood and the thread that ties all the actions of a democratic school; the school efficacy, because of the intention of reaching excellency; and the school climate since we believe it to be an axis which standardizes the other intra school activities.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-01-13T12:49:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 christianecruzpereira.pdf: 2076258 bytes, checksum: 1bb27940aad27929c9f7edc3b97515c1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-01-31T11:14:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 christianecruzpereira.pdf: 2076258 bytes, checksum: 1bb27940aad27929c9f7edc3b97515c1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-31T11:14:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 christianecruzpereira.pdf: 2076258 bytes, checksum: 1bb27940aad27929c9f7edc3b97515c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-22 / O presente estudo objetiva analisar a política de ensino médio integrado das escolas profissionais no estado do Ceará, com enfoque na verificação de relações de influência sobre os processos de gestão escolar e os resultados de inserção produtiva e ingresso acadêmico dos egressos da política, a fim de contribuir academicamente para o melhoramento institucional da política, como um todo e, em especial, das quatro escolas pesquisadas. O referencial metodológico e teórico do estudo tem por correlação de fundamento, a missão da escola profissional, o modelo de gestão escolar, o plano de ação escolar e a autopercepção da gestão escolar sobre seus processos de gestão e das características organizacionais de cada escola. A fundamentação teórica orientadora do instrumento de pesquisa de campo foi as pesquisas acerca das características das escolas eficazes, de Sammons, Martimore e Hilman (1995), internacionalmente reconhecidos e contextualizados no cenário educacional brasileiro, nos estudos de Polon (2009) apoiados em Boamino (2005). Da análise do conteúdo manifesto e latente da pesquisa de campo e da análise documental é possível constatar que a política educacional em questão parece favorecer uma nova subjetividade de escola, significativamente positiva, por parte da gestão escolar, bem como é possível afirmar que a ideia de cultura da qualidade escolar é perseguida e autolegitimada como característica organizacional das escolas profissionais. No entanto, a análise dos achados da pesquisa de campo, do documento de planejamento escolar e dos indicadores de resultados dos egressos apresentam incongruências entre o autolegitimado, no discurso e as evidências de práticas de gestão e de características organizacionais. Estas constatações sinalizam a existência de lacunas na forma como a política está programaticamente estruturada em termos de monitoramento do progresso escolar, sendo pertinente, nesse sentido, propor a estruturação de um plano de desenvolvimento das capacidades conceituais da gestão para orientar o monitoramento de seus resultados e metas institucionais. Encontrou-se em Luck (2009) o arcabouço conceitual capaz de dialogar com o problema da política identificado, na pesquisa de campo, indicando a necessidade de organização do trabalho escolar orientado para monitoramento de processos educacionais, com ênfase nos resultados dos egressos como fio condutor de amadurecimento da equipe escolar e consequente alcance de padrões de melhoria do ensino médio integrado do estado do Ceará. / This study aims to analyze the high school integrated policy of vocational schools in the state of Ceará, focusing on verification of influence relationships on school management processes and the results of productive insertion and academic entry of politics graduates, in order to contribute academically to the institutional improvement of the policy as a whole and in special the four schools surveyed. The methodological and theoretical framework of the study is the basis of correlation, vocational school's mission, the model of school's management, school action plan and the selfperception of school management on their management processes and organizational characteristics of each school. The guiding theoretical basis of field research instrument was the research on the characteristics of some effective schools, as Sammons, Martimore and Hilman (1995), internationally recognized and contextualized to the Brazilian educational scenario, in Polon estudies (2009) supported by Boamino ( 2005). The analysis of manifest and latent content of field research and documentary analysis, it is clear that the educational policy in question appears to favor a new subjectivity of the school significantly positive by the school management, and it can be said that the idea of quality of school culture is pursued and self-legitimized as an organizational feature of vocational schools. However, the analysis of field research findings, the school planning document and the graduate’s performance indicators show inconsistencies between the self-legitimized in the speech and the evidence of management and organizational characteristics practices. These findings indicate the existence of gaps in the way the policy is programmatically structured in terms of monitoring the school progress, being relevant to propose a development plan for conceptual management skills to guide the monitoring results and institutional goals. Accoarding to Luck (2009) the conceptual framework capable of dealing with the problem of identified policy, in the research field, indicates the need for a better organization of the school work oriented to monitorong educational processes, with emphasis on the results of the graduates as thread ripening of school staff and consequent achievement of standards to improve the integrated high school in the state of Ceará.