Possibilidades e limitações do uso de softwares de suporte à gestão democrática de escolas públicas de educação básica do Estado de São Paulo

Abstract

Taking as frameworks the quality indicators of participative and pedagogic management and of management of educational performances , proposed by government agencies and by UNESCO, this research study had as purpose to evaluate, according to the view of public school managers, the resources and limitations of the main softwares presently used as support for the management of schools of basic education, as well as the importance of introducing new tasks to such computational systems in order to make them more relevant to the democratic management of public schools of the State of São Paulo. The research subjects were public school managers of the School Directory of Santo Anastácio, situated at the far west region of the State of São Paulo. The instruments of data collection were two: a panel, composed by a group of principals for surveying both the characteristics of the available sofwares for supporting the school management and the relations of the available dimensions in these sofwares with the quality indicators of school management; and an electronic questionnaire sent to all school principals of the School Directory of Santo Anastácio for evaluating the level of importance of new dimensions to be added to the sofwares of support for the school management, taking as framework the quality indicators of school management. The managers of the schools surveyed felt that the current softwares of support of school management are not offering relevant information to the democratic management of public schools and, therefore, need improvement. The high degree of importance attributed by the principals to the innovations proposed to be added to the softwares of support to democratic management of state public schools, according to the parameter of quality indicators of participative, pedagogic and educational performance management indirectly also leads to the conclusion that the current softwares are precarious