O papel do diretor de turma numa escola com contrato de associação

: uma visão sobre a sua importância na relação com a família e com a comunidade

Abstract

The investigations about the role of the class director in the consolidation of the school s capacity to administrate and manage the interaction between the school and the community has already been object of several studies presenting a significant research tradition, in particular in the domain of the sociology of organizations and the school administration. Although the veracity of aforementioned statement, the role played by this intermediate manager, inside the school organizations, resembles determinant for the success of the educational process and structuring for the construction and achievement of the School's Project, which prints to this theme an always renewed relevance. In a school with association contract, in order to its administrative and financial autonomy, relatively to the central government agencies, this educational actor acquires a freedom to act that is based on different and innovator projects which contribute for the student's centrally in the whole educational process and obviously for their integral formation. As the present report goal is to illustrate the role of the class director in meeting objectives of Externato Infante D. Henrique, a school with association contract, more specifically in the contribution to family and community participation in the school s routine, this report pretends to present, in a reliable form, a reflection theoretical-conceptual of this kind of organizations and evidence some practices of effective differentiation in the themes referred above.

Date of Award	14 Jul 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Carlos Alberto Vilar Estevão (Supervisor)