Desafios da retenção de profissionais da educação em tempos de crise: o caso da Direcção Distrital de Educação e Cultura de Nlhamankulu – Cidade de Maputo (2022 – 2023)

Abstract

This study analyzed the challenges of retaining education professionals in times crisis, based on the case of the Nlhamankulu District Directorate of Education and Culture – City of Maputo, in the period between 2022 and 2023. To achieve this objective, a qualitative methodology was adopted, based on the literature review, in use of semi-structured interviews for primary data collection and content analysis combined with theoretical interpretation for the analysis of the statements given by the 7 managers who participated in this study as informants. Overall, the results of this study reveals that, between 2022 and 2023, the District Directorate of Education and Culture of Nlhamankulu faced significant challenges in retaining education professionals in times of crisis, because although retention strategies were structured in accordance with guidelines and standards in force in the public service and in the educational sector, with highlighting the General Statute of State Employees and Agents and its regulations, the lack of incentives, effective recognition and a collaborative environment reduces the effectiveness of these strategies. Thus, to improve retention, the literature shows that it is crucial that the Nlhamankulu District Directorate of Education and Culture implements measures that value professional recognition, flexibility in working conditions work and the participation of teachers in the decision-making process, responding more effective and adaptable to the demands of the local educational context. At the same time, it is important that several studies be developed on this topic in other contexts and with different types of informants, in order to establish comparisons that allow the identification of actions that enable the improvement of retention strategies education professionals in the Mozambican context.( TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)