O papel do supervisor no contexto escolar

Abstract

Having in view the transformations required by the LDB/96 managed for a democratic administration, the present work proposes to analyze the Supervisor's function in the school context, establishing its function to the several moments of the Brazilian educational history. The new administration proposal has as base the participation of the school collective, this wins a certain autonomy, requiring an efficient and actualized performance from its professionals. This requests of its managers, especially the Supervisor, a deep reflection about an democratic innovator action of the educational process. In this perspective, the Supervisor is an agent dinamizador, intermediater, integrater and coordinator of the technician-political-pedagogic process in the school administration. The methodology used for the development of the work is of qualitative character, whose research field is the Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Augusto Vitor Costa. The research was accomplished through interviews with the directive and educational team of the institution about the function supervisor's acting in the school context. It is, therefore, of a case study, whose description, analysis and interpretation of the investigated reality were gradatively built through the direct observation.