This article aims to identify studies about the role of pedagogical coordinators, its obstacles and advances, grounded on a literature review. The literature survey, based on a critical-reflexive reference, allowed expliciting the central thesis of several studies conducted about the subject, which reveal, with bigger or smaller emphasis, data about the role of pedagogical coordinators in the school context. The researchers attribute the main responsibility for mediating the continuing education of teachers to the coordinators. However, it is clear that coordinators are mostly involved in bureaucratic and trivial activities, thus limiting the political and pedagogical purview of their work. To overcome this reality, it is necessary that teachers and coordinators seek training and affirmation as technically and politically competent subjects.
politics; pedagogical coordinator; area coordinator; education