Reflexões sobre a gestão das organizações educacionais particulares educação infantil e ensino fundamental

The paper's main goal is to promote a deeper reflection on the use of the most important tools concerning business management, by respecting certain changes, in order to fit private elementary schools - both kindergarten and primary schools. It focuses on the main functions and support functions related to business administration, marketing elements concerning both related services and the department structures, in order to sketch the elementary school's reference matrixes. The study was carried out in Curitiba-Pr, between June and October/2001, gathering data from five different elementary school's management strategies and models, chosen according to their importance in the marketplace and structure. After this database had been created, the analogous study on the case report - São Judas Tadeu de Curitiba School - proceeded, focusing on its main management elements.

Aplicações da teoria de Piaget ao ensino da matemática elementar

O presente trabalho tem por finalidade a aplicaçao de principios teóricos e experimentais de Jean Piaget ao ensino da matemática. Considerando-se as implicações educacionais da teoria, fizemos uma proposta de sistematizar uma metodologia de ensino que tem por fim a ativaçao das estruturas mentais pelo ensino da matemática. Este trabalho, em resumo, constitui uma sintese da teoria do desenvolvimento cognitivo de Piaget, e o relato de uma pesquisa experimental que teve por fim avaliar os efeitos de uma metodologia proposta para estruturas mentais na criança. Com esta finalidade, foram urilizados dois grupos de trabalho constituídos intencionalmente, um experimental e o outro de controle, ambos com 21 sujeitos, alunos da 2a série do 1o grau de escolas particulares da cidade de Goiainia (GO), de classe social média supeior e média inferior. Em ambos os grupos se realizou o pré-teste. A metodologia de ensino de fundamentação piagetiana foi utilizada para o ensino da matemática no grupo experimental, e no grupo de controle utilizou-se para o ensino da matemática uma metodologia considerada tradicional, durante o período de um semestre letivo. Após o trabalho, foi realizado o pós-teste em ambos os grupos e, um estudo comparativo dos resultados coletados permitiu verificar a eficiência da metodologia de ensino proposta e a fecundidade do ensino da matemática numa perspectiva piagetiana.

Percepção de qualidade das escolas do ponto de vista de alunos do ensino médio

This study aims at evaluating the perception towards the quality of services offered by private high schools in Brazil. For this purpose, field research was conducted at four different schools: two in Rio de Janeiro, one in Belo Horizonte and one in the countryside of Minas Gerais. Such research was conducted by using an instrument known a SERVQUAL, a framework developed for assessing service quality. Target audience were 1st and 2nd year high school students and the research was carried out at the schools. 44 items were evaluated, 22 being related to students’ expectations towards the services which should be offered by the school. The other 22 items evaluated students’ perception towards the actual service offered by the school. By analyzing the results it was possible to measure the difference between the service the students expected from the schools and the one actually offered by the schools. Results show great opportunities for improvement in the services and also contribute to a better and wider understanding concerning basic education service quality.

Mobility, targeting and private school vouchers

This paper uses general equilibrium simulations to explore the role ofresidential mobility in shaping the impact of different types of private school voucher policies. In particular, general vouchers available to all residents in the state are compared to vouchers specifically targeted to either underprivileged school districts or underprivileged households. The simulations are derived from a three-community mo deI of low, middle and high income school districts (calibrated to New York data), where each school district is composed of multiple types of neighborhoods that may vary in house quality as well as the leveI of neighborhood extemalities. Households that differ in both their income and in the ability leveI of their children choose between school districts, between neighborhoods within their school district, and between the local public school or a menu of private school altematives.Local public school quality within a district is endogenously determined bya combination of the average peer quality of public school attending children as well as local property and state income tax supported spending. Financial support (above a required state minimum) is set by local majority rule. Finally, there exists the potential for a private school market composed of competitive schools that face production technologies similar to those ofpublic schools but who set tuition and admissions policies to maximize profits. In tbis model, it is demonstrated that school district targeted vouchers are similar in their impact to non-targeted vouchers but vastIy different from vouchers targeted to low income households. Furthermore, strong migration effects are shown to significantly improve the likely equity consequences of voucher programs.