As possibilidades e os limites do trabalho do diretor em uma escola estadual do ensino médio
Abstract
The present study considers the possibilities and the limits
of a school Principal s work in a daily routine of a state high school.
By identifing the dificulties found by school Principal attemps to the
abilities that should be improved to face them, once the school main
objetive is the student s development as a person and his preparation
to a qualified work as a citizen.
A case study was undertaken in a state high school in a
countryside town of São Paulo state.
Among the Principal s work possibilities stand out the
availability of teachers who are officially hired full time job in the
school; the acess and the proximity the Region Educational Direction;
the school area. The limits stand out the lack of the school historical
contest valorization; the presence of bureaucratic structure, the
relation with the system that imposes some determinations without
considering peculiarities, the absence of a pedagogic proposal and the
violence.
The school Principal should improve abilities of working
with a group participation, to assign tasks, to be creative, dynamic
and able to searche for alternatives to the reality he works with; to
think about his actions in order to achieve coherence between
practice and theory.