As representações sociais dos gestores do Instituto Federal do Maranhão - campi São Luís – Maracanã e Codó - acerca da eficiência na gestão da escola pública da rede federal

Abstract

The insertion of the Principle of Efficiency in the Federal Constitution by Constitutional Amendment No. 19/1998, became a legal requirement for efficiency in public administration in Brazil, which became a model for formally oriented management. This research aims to identify, through the use of free evocations technical, social representations of the management of the Instituto Federal do Maranhão – Campi São Luís - Maracanã and Codó about efficiency in the management of public schools of the Federal Network. The research was conducted among a universe of 73 (seventy-three) of these managers Campi. The theoretical framework on which this research was supported was Social Representation Theory, of Serge Moscovici, and its complementary approach, the Central Nucleus Theory, developed by Jean-Claude Abric. The free evocations were analyzed by the technique of frame construction of four houses, after using the software EVOC 2003 ®, which sued the combination of the frequency of recall of each word and its order of evocation. The results of this research show how the core elements of social representations of managers, the words: commitment, accountability, transparency and ethics. The word dedication represented the first periphery. The words training, commitment, planning, organization and quality formed the third quadrant, where are the contrasting elements of representation. And the words: agility, punctuality and respect formed the Periphery Second of the representation. Through this research, it was also possible to identify the profile of managers and their opinions on various aspects related to the efficient management of public education.