Pioneiros da coordenação pedagógica paulistana: histórias de lutas e desafios: 1983-1989

Abstract

This study had the aim to deep the knowledge and comprehension about the professional hole, the consolidation and the performance of the pioneers of pedagogical coordination in Municipal Childhood Schools in São Paulo city. In this study, the researcher intended to understand the pedagogical coordinator in a time that can be considered the beginning of this career in 1983, first as a pedagogical auxiliary, afterwards, with the regulamentation of this post according to the Law number 9874 of January 18th, 1985 witch modified the career of workers in the school, being created the post of pedagogical coordinator and, afterwards, creating the first public admission competition in 1988. This study used the qualitative method of research once it made it possible to use a bibliography and documental method, and, specially, the oral history of five selected teacher´s life; interviewing them, we collected their memories from the hole they played, their problems and their fighting, but also their personal victory and how they became important for the consolidation of this post in the career of this kind of public school. In order to understand these features, in this study, it was done a descriptive analysis of their speech, considered as a testimony of five pedagogical coordinators who got their posts through the public concourse in 1988. Our aim was to discover details of their projects, how they intent to win, their problems and, consequently this memories as agents who rebuilt the pedagogical work in the Municipal Childhood School. The aim of these interviews was to describe and relate them, by the coordinators´ memories, to the process of how this kind of public schools became more democratic in a historically important time when democratic transition allowed political freedom, in a slow and gradual process, and which characterizes the 80´s, and let its effects in Education. The results of the interviews analysis made us verify that the pedagogical coordinators experienced the fights for the consolidation of this post in municipal system of school and this brought advantages to the educational process until then divided over the wrong idea of separation between the administrative and pedagogical part, separation between planning and executing the pedagogical work, between orientation and supervision.