Educational management roles: Planning, organization, direction and control in public schools of Aquiraz city, Ceará, Brazil

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14244/19827199992

This article aims to analyze school principals’ perceptions on the roles of the Administration in the practice of educational administration in public schools from Aquiraz, Ceará, Brazil. The research is presented within the methodological strategy of the four poles supported by De Bruyne, Herman and Schoutheete (1977), as well as it is an exploratory and quantitative study. For this, a questionnaire was used as data collection tool. Thus, for data analysis, we used descriptive statistics techniques, t-test, Cronbach's Alpha and Pearson Correlation through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0. It can be observed that the averages of the overall results of this study were: Control with 88.48, Organization with 85.71, Planning with 84.71, and Management with 78.33. It can also be observed that the items’ internal consistency was sufficient in all four studied roles, as well as were the results of Hotelling's T tests and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Regarding Pearson’s correlation coefficient, we’ve noticed strong correlation between Control–Planning roles (0.814) and Control–Organization roles (0.765). The study’s results seek to contribute to the educational management actions improvement regarding the roles of school management and planning in the schools that participated on this research.

Keywords: Administration, Educational management, Administrative role.