PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATORS' EDUCATION: PRACTICE AND FORMATIVE NEEDS UNDER DISCUSSION

Abstract

This text is a result of an investigation developed with the objective of mapping and analyzing the productions, in national basis, that covers the pedagogical coordination, with an approach to the researches that considers the coordinators’ education into the schools´ context. It comes from the understanding of both initiative and proposals of teacher education to the pedagogical coordinators must be aligned to their education needs in order to occur the significance of this teacher education in the pedagogical coordinator´s actions. In order to contemplate the aim of this research, a mapping of doctoral thesis and masters´ dissertations were developed based on the catalogue of thesis and dissertations from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior do Ministério da Educação (CAPES/MEC) and in the site of the Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD) do Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia (MCT), considering a temporal period from 2008 to 2018, with the intention of investigating: what do the researches reveal in relation to the pedagogical coordinators´ educational needs? In which proportion do the proposals and initiatives of continuing teacher education directed to the pedagogical coordinators and referenced in the mapped researches have reflected upon the pedagogical actions developed by them? It was possible to find in the research that even if the thematic has moved forward considerably in the late years, it is yet novice the initiative of the continuing teacher education that considers the pedagogical coordinators´ educational needs as baseline of their formulation and realization,  thus promoting, the distance between the proposal in the researches and what have been observed in the coordinators´ performance.