School governance and autonomy contracts

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Rosa Maria Pereira de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Machado, Joaquim
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• DOI: 10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2011.3329
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2011.3329

Contracts of autonomy are part of a larger context of study that is the decentralization of the educational administration and are closely related to new ways of regulation of the public action and to a new form of school management. In this study, of which the main results are presented here, we use a qualitative approach to understand the contracting process of the autonomy of schools in Portugal, we analysed the autonomy agreemented contracts signed on September 10th, 2007 and other produced documents and we listened to the points of view of the 22 School Directors or school associated groups with a contract and a director of each Regional Head of Education. The governance by contract is a mode of regulation of educational policies and of state action in Education that fits the perspective of organizational development of schools and legitimized itself through the objectives of school improvement, quality of public service of education and improving learning outcomes of students.