Gestão institucional na educação infantil

Abstract

This research is positioned in the field of Early Childhood Education (ECE). By recognizing the changes in this field, which have resulted in the reconfiguration of many schools‟ professional staff. This paper seeks to understand who the managers that work in the institutions are. This was done through considering their personal and professional profiles, the work dynamics and processes of career development. By structuring this work with theoretical and methodological principles of Bakhtin (Bakhtin, 1988, 1997, 2010, 2011), it aims to understand research, which includes the relationship between subjects. Especially focusing on the Bakhtinian concepts of subject, dialogism, heteroglossia, exceeding vision and ethical acts. Moreover, it contextualizes the ECE and management at ECE based on Campos (2006, 2010, 2011, 2012) and Coco (2009, 2010). It points out aspects of democratic management in Brazil based on official documents (BRASIL, 1988, 1996, 2014). Additionally with the contribution of literatures on the field of management, such as Souza (2006, 2009, 2010, 2012) and Paro (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015); and in the field of training, Nóvoa (2002, 2009, 2011). Developed through a qualitative and exploratory approach, this research has applied a questionnaire and it has done a semi-structured interview with managers of Municipal Centers of Early Childhood Education (CMEI) of a county in the metropolitan region of Vitoria, Espirito Santo. The analysis of data produced indicates prospective management that develop through the sharing of educational work. Moreover, it points to the fact that knowledge of the specifics of ECE contributes to the exercise of the function, it highlights the importance of continued teacher training processes in professional development, and consequently in strengthening the concepts related to the field of ECE.