Sabedorias do coordenador pedagógico: enredos do interpessoal e de (con)ciências na escola

Abstract

The main aim of this research was to identify and analyse the necessary competencies of the pedagogical co-ordinator in his/her daily work in the schools of São Paulo's public net of education. Thirty-eight co-ordinator from several areas of the state of São Paulo, were interviewed. They were organised in five groups and, not simultaneously, answered the question: which are the competencies that a pedagogical coordinator must have in his/her daily work in the school? This research stood the information obtained from the attendance to a work of a pedagogical co-ordinator in a school of the city of São Paulo. The competencies pointed out by the co-ordinator and observed in the practice of a co-ordinator were analysed through its nearness to the different fields of knowledge, through some social representations associated to them, through the context where they appear as necessary and through the contexts they can be learned. Is was verified the great value attributed to the interpersonal competencies, in order to be able to have a good communication with the teachers. Therefore, the Psychology of Education is a fertile ground to this analysis. The knowledge which was elaborated from this research can't be generalized to the whole group of co-ordinators of the state of São Paulo, but it offers clues to a dialogue with those actors