The Senses of the Pedagogical Coordination: Reasons for Staying in this Role

Abstract

In a research conducted in the years 2010-2011, whose main objective was to analyze the pedagogical coordination processes in schools in the five Brazilian geographical regions, with a view to proposing public policies for teacher education and organization of school systems, it was established that the profession of pedagogical coordinator, although recognized as essential for the school operation by government and education workers, has lots of challenges to overcome due to the conditions that characterize the exercise of the function. The difficulties faced by these professionals, as remuneration, the large number of tasks, little time to do them and the lack of specific training led us to question what leads them to feel gratification in their function, whether anxieties and tensions seem to predominate in their professional practice. Reflecting on this question is what we aim in this article, so as to contribute to advance our understanding of the pedagogical coordination as function.