Requisitos para uma escola de qualidade

Abstract

The theme of this essay fits the area of School Administration and Organization, focusing on the problematic related to the needs to achieve a school with quality The general purpose of the study is to understand and to relate the quality indicators of a school in the perspective of the development of the teaching/learning process and a person’s growth with the school’s evaluative practice, mainly the external evaluation. The study accomplished is contextualized in a theoretical scenario in which we present a raising of the main issues brought forward within the problematic of the school’s quality and of the school itself as an organization. We present some indicators which we consider essential so that school may provide an educational service able of setting the difference in our country’s historical, social and political moment, raising, at the same time, some issues about the problematic of education’s regulation in a context of the reconfiguration of stateowned intervention in the educational action and whether the role of external evaluation in this changing context covers the quality indicators which we aim at. In the inner part of the empirical investigation, we have tried to obtain data in a context of external evaluation reports, to be able to better understand the impact of such process establishment on the schools’ educational process and apprenticeships. From the methodologist point of view, we have chosen an approach of a qualitative interpretative nature, aiming at withdrawing all the potential which the schools’ extreme evaluation reports enclose, in a way that it might be a starting point to new perspectives of improvement, and, above all, that it might set the basis which helps to “think education” and to benefit the promotion of the educational success and the preparation of students to their future life.

Date of Award	2013
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Rodrigo Melo (Supervisor)