Educação & Realidade (Sep 2013)
The Duties of the Principal in São Paulo State Schools: changes and continuities
Abstract
This essay is intended for an analysis of the principal’s duties in São Paulo State school, considering the conceptions of Administration specialists, Education professionals and the legal directives pertinent to the State government. It was interesting the procedures of rereading and analyzing of the literature of the area; the survey and analysis of legal documents which, direct or indirectly, concern the principal’s duty and the accomplishment, transcription and analysis of half elaborated interviews with administrators and teachers. At the end of this research, it was found some contradictions in the conception of School Administration like it is diffused in different contexts, which anyway reflects the conceptions of the respondents.
