(Re)pensar a escola e (re)construir caminhos de promoção do sucesso

: um olhar sobre as forças e as fraquezas do Plano de Ação Estratégica (PAE) enquanto recurso estratégico de governação da escola

Abstract

The Portuguese Schools clusters/nonclustered Schools were invited, regarding the Promotion of School Success National Program (PNPSE), at the end of the 2015/2016 school year, to design strategic action plans to be implemented in the two subsequent school years. These strategic action plans, taking root as an incremental change, sought to create the opportunity to (re) think school and (re) build ways to promote success. Thus, in this report, after treading the path from the conception of the strategic action plan for Mosteiro and Cávado Schools Cluster, until the first assessment moment, an analytical look on its strengths and weaknesses is taken, as a strategic resource for the school management, allowing us to conclude that the balance is tipped towards the side of the strengths, which can be summed up in the idea of pooling all efforts to promote school success and the learning quality, as the natural condition of the School that is aimed for all, thus detaching from the traditional approach that seeks the phenomenon’s explanation in the sociological fatalism. Nevertheless, the weaknesses cannot be neglected, as they are anchored in organizational analysis models and in their respective images, dominant in the schools cluster, with the prevalent leadership style and with the school cultures and the subcultures of the professionals, which dominate in it.

Date of Award	30 May 2018
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Carlos Alberto Vilar Estêvão (Supervisor)