Gestão estratégica da educação no Colégio da Polícia Militar da Bahia : realidades e perspectivas

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the contributions of the strategic management to the improvement of the learning and teaching process. In this research we will analyse how the strategic management, if adopted by the staff and the management team of Colégio da Polícia Militar (CPM), can contribute, based on the relation between school knowledge (school practice) and the requirements of the contemporary world, to the empowerment of the students’ autonomy and criticism. We will use the contributions from the Administration Theory, in order to present a comment about its assimilation by the school administration and to do an analyze of this process toward the social transformation. In the school, the strategic management is seen by some authors as a process that completely improve the school management, connecting the strategic planning to the others management systems, offering a concept review of the school, based on its interior and on its environment analyze, reinforcing the educational practice with focus on formation and school management as team administration which can contribute to attend the real necessity of those who adopt it. The qualitative research was shaped as a case study whose subjects are teachers and the management team of the school, and the instruments to collect the data are observation, questionnaire and documental research. The experience confirms the systematically and non-systematically utilization of the strategic management by the mentioned school, since the implementation of the School Development Planning (SDP), in 1999, and the Pedagogical Political Project, in 2004. We noticed that nowadays such process is been presented as a tendency in the school management area.