Modos de Gestão e Processo de Trabalho Docente na Educação Infantil da Região Sul do Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

This thesis addresses the issue of management in preschools and its implications to the teaching work process. Using concepts of management methods and the teaching work process, it analyzes the relationship between the school management and the work developed by preschool teachers. To this end, we based the research on eighteen interviews carried out with municipal preschools teachers from nine cities in the south of Rio Grande do Sul, seeking to explore how they understand their work, the school management and their professional identity. It was found that there are several modes of management instituted in the schools that participated in this research. None has a management that is clearly managerial, bureaucratic or democratic. What we have seen is that school management is based on several attempts to individually build a way of managing each school, which, in turn, depend on each institutional reality, the people who work in these places, and how municipal education departments develop their work.