Gestão educacional e formação integral: experiências e desafios nas escolas e colégios da rede jesuíta de educação

Abstract

The present study addresses educational management and integral training: experiences and challenges in schools and colleges of the Jesuit Education Network. In order to meet this objective, the actions developed by the managers of the institutions named “A” and “B”, the institution “A” located in São Paulo and the institution “B” in Teresina are presented. It seeks to understand the entire management process capable of guaranteeing integral learning in a new context and in different needs, revealing knowledge and skills needed by managers. The research encourages reflections on the practices of managers, the expressions and interactions that they establish in the processes with students, families, communities and employees. The methodology used is configured in bibliographic, of qualitative nature. Authors such as: Luck (2009), Storck (2016) and Klein (2015) were used in the theoretical foundation of the research. Through the research it was possible to understand that the construction of the managers' knowledge has always been allied to the needs that arose in the work environment and that these experiences add new knowledge, corresponding to the needs as, as stated by Larrosa (2001), it forms and transforms as an individual; that managers seek to develop their actions in agreement with the guidelines from the Common Educational Project, generating opportunities for the reorganization of the school institution, with a view to fulfilling the mission (PEC, 2015, p.55 nº55); both emphasize the condition of apprentices in this constant process of improvement that implies reading the reality and the socio-cultural context, lighting and extinguishing flames and seeking the necessary balance in the conduct of the mission, showing that education is the means of social transformation and that mobilizes students to find in the school space the right to be people capable of dreaming and achieving a better life condition. Through the study, it is clear that there are many challenges in schools and colleges that prioritize the management model in which power is service and leadership is a space for sharing power and responsibility, in order to dialogue more easily and to show that management must be shared in the search for results, thinking about the integral formation of the human being as a person, a creature loved by God.