O gestor e a organização do espaço escolar: interação e integração

Abstract

This research was carried out to encourage and pursue a reflection on the part of Education professionals on the creation of educative spaces by means of the school architecture. Thus one analyzed school buildings from the point of view of the constructed, built spaces and the assignment of meanings as an experienced, felt, and perceived place, taking on an educative character. At the same time, one supports and emphasizes the need of previous assessment and careful planning before the building is put up. As examples, one mentions projects built in the country meant for combining functionality and comfort. By knowing that meanings are conveyed based on human occupation, concerning educative spaces one stressed the importance of school management and administration in order to make such spaces more effective, cozier, and liable to take on a more educative character. Within such a context, one pointed out features, competence, and skills essential to the school principal, the main manager of that educative unit within the various spheres of his/her assignments in order to explain, based on scientific literature, that organizing the school environment and making it ready for effective use is an important variable for successful outcomes. At last, by availing ourselves of the phenomenological tendency, one analyzed the essence of the principal s work in a state public school, where school management operates in the organization of its environment, having in mind the comfort and the welfare of its students - its main users - and the quality of the teaching provided by the school. Therefore, one managed to find out how the management of the school at issue operates so that its students satisfactions are met One also found out that an extreme difference may be felt in the school environment when new managerial paradigms are put into practice within the boundaries of the school.