Projetos Educativos de Escolas Complexas

Como Construir?

Abstract

Schools' educational projects were conceived as instruments for mobilizing educational communities, but, nowadays, they follow business logic that expects schools to be predictable. However, schools are complex environments, given to unpredictability, which requires different organizational tools. So, it is necessary to solve this theoretical-practical void and answer the question: How to build educational projects of complex schools? We do it, under the lens of Complexity Theory, through a reflective essay that calls for the differences between ordered systems (such as companies) and complex systems (such as schools) and then presents the structure that should preside the construction of educational projects in complex educational environments: circumstances (instead diagnoses), experiences (instead activities), stories (instead quantitative goals) and coherence (instead vision). We conclude that, in the context of complexity, schools require commitments to be built instead of educational projects.