Abstract:

The pedagogical supervision in Mozambique: the political and pedagogical implications

inside the basic schools, topic of this research, presented to the post-graduation program
"Stricto Sensu" in Eduvation of Pontifícia Universidade Catolica de Goiás (PUC/GO) at the
school of teachers and humanity training in the scope of research of theories of education
and pedagogical processes, seeks to respond to the question: what are the political and
pedagogical implications to the exercise of the pedagogical supervision at the schools of
basic education of the public network in the Mozambican contex? So, the main objective of
this research is to analyze the political and pedagogical implications of the exercise of
pedagogical supervision inside the schools of basic education in the public network of
Mozambique, in order to spy the true function of the pefagogical supervision inside the
school. In the most specific and detailed form of the research, first it's described the
Mozambican history of education in order to explain the aspects that gave the opening of
pedagogical supervision, and to characterize the forms of operation of
educational/pedagogical supervision of Mozambique. Second, by the most specific form as
well, the study brings an explicitness of relations of power and the processes of
reproduction that the pedagogical supervision plays at the schools of the basic education in
the mozambican public network in the perspective speaking of the subject in the interview.
And finally, with a specific form as well, it brings an approach indicading the manufacturing
perspectives of the pedagogical supervision for the educational System of Mozambique and
at the schools through democratic, humanizing and emancipative perspective. So, to sustain
the analysis of the research by methodological form, it's betaken the explanation of Micheal
Faucault, trying to demonstrate how the power is organized and structured inside the
school through the disciplinary actions of the Subject. And yet, in the approach of Pierre
Bourdieu about the school as a reproductive System of the society of class, keeping the
hierachy of power. This research is bibliographic, of field and is betaken too the juridic legal
documents related to the education of Mozambique. For the field research is betaken the
realization of interviews to the subjects who are used with the phenomenon under
investigation, presently, with the open-ended questions. During the discussions the
outcomes of the investigation evidence that the practice of pedagogical supervision in the
Mozambican context remotes from the colonial period, the period that were
institutionalized the first schools in Mozambique and that this activity was always
connected with the vigilance and control, because it's colonial inheritance. It's an idelogy of
dominant class, a strategy of the capitalist wold found at the schools by different dominator
depending of the activity, it's hierarchizied and well dissimulated. Which demonstrates that,
the pedagogical supervision is an activity of control found in a relation of hierarchical
power.
Key works: pedagogical supervision, relation of power, basic school education