O sistema de proteção escolar e comunitária do estado de São Paulo: o entendimento do professor mediador escolar e comunitário sobre suas práticas funcionais

Abstract

At the end of 2009, the State Department of Education in partnership with the Department of Public Safety, launched the Project Protection School and Community System (SPEC). To implement the project in state schools was created the function of Teacher School and Community Mediator (PMEC). In this work, we investigated the understanding of this new professional about their duties and how they unfold in school practices, with the hypothesis that before a non-specific training, for appropriate profile selection of difficulty and of course insufficient training, PMEC runs projects and activities not related to their function and that the actual duties that should play at schools not you are clear, then, each performs them according to their own reading and thus can not be given to introducing legislation or have a critical view of their role. To reach the end, there was a qualitative research descriptive, using the questionnaire as a collection tool and content analysis for data processing. The sample included randomly in the electronic questionnaire sent to the use PMECs activity at the time of the survey. Obtained return 485 PMECs, a universe of 3.210, constituting a representative sample of grade of more than 95% reliability. The answers reveal a lack of more specific training and understanding, about the concepts and processes intrinsic to its function, contrary to the authors consulted. They also reveal that, in the opinion of these professionals, they are responsible for performing any tasks given to them in order to promote the smooth running of the school, easing the weight of the tasks of the managers of school units; however, to encompass such assignments, PMECs end up getting lost in their function. The fact is that once again we see the launch of a project designed for those who do not know the daily life of schools and professionals who work in them and thus this professional is carrying out the possible actions in trying to make the project work.