Coordenação e gestão pedagógica da escola

The analysis of the regulatory evolution of the pedagogical management of schools puts in evidence continuities and ruptures in organizational morphology and helps to understand their legal and formal similarities, especially if we consider that despite the rhetoric of autonomic Portuguese schools, its direction remains centralized in the ministry education and central services. However, the analysis of the internal regulations shows that schools are not just reproductive organs of the laws but they recreate some structures and implement specific organization features, in the process of incorporation of the core standards. This article identifies different intermediate-level structures of administrative and pedagogical management of school contemplated in legislative terms over forty years of democracy and incorporated in its internal regulations, marking a route full of continuities but with some evolution determined by the requirements of school masses. Finally, it focuses on the work that teachers develop within the intermediate-level management structures and discusses the teaching collaboration and the role of school leaders.