School director’s challenges at full-time education: an investigation in state of rondônia

Abstract

This study is a result of a descriptive research developed on a qualitative approach, part of a Master's Thesis. The investigation aimed to analyze, on the School Director conception of how he has dealt with people management in the school scope to achieve goals and objectives in a full-time education context. We asked ourselves: what challenges related to people management are faced by the School Director? The data were collected through interviews, with the research participants being two Directors who work in schools that offer full-time high school in two municipalities in the state of Rondônia, Western Brazilian Amazon. The data were submitted to content analysis and part of its results are presented in this article through the category defined a priori called "Challenges of people management in the context of Full-Time High Schools". The research found the use of a standard management model based on the commitment to the integrality of educational action and that both schools are undergoing processes of paradigm of management concepts and procedures changes. With regard to people management, we discovered that the investigated schools go through situations that involve the need for engagement of civil servants and facing rules imposed by hierarchical levels that are above the School Director’s governability, especially regarding the number of professionals in schools where they work, which, in a way, worries these managers, from the perspective of expected managerial results achieving – requirements necessary for the full fulfillment of the educational purpose.