School headship in Ecuador. Brief analysis
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2017 |
| Descripción: | The new challenges and changes that nowadays society face with its diverse social structures and with the influence that the technical-business ideology has on the policies regarding education add to the complexity of school organization with regards to the distribution of tasks and position definitions. In consequence, the school cannot simulate a company due to the intricacies of the education process itself as well as to the various formative requirements to which it responds. All this forces everyone who is involved in the educational undertakings to carry on a rational division between work and school in order to specify each of the functions that all of its members have to fulfill in an effort to meet internal and external demands. All these also entail the adjustment of headship profiles to this rational approach. However, this work division needs to oppose to a vertical and hierarchical order of the parties involved (boss-subordinates) still present in Ecuador’s education institutes. Therefore, it will be possible to rely on managerial positions based on leadership (pedagogical, transformational and well-distributed). All these means that the objective of those who exercise the headship on schools should not be a ruling authority, but a guiding and directing one capable of managing a team that adds to the challenges which emerge due to the revolving changes faced by schools on a daily basis. Hence, an effective headship is the motor that boosts the social and cultural constructions in schools for the sake of institutional transformations that meet truly pedagogical needs that students have. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/30600 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/gestedu/article/view/30600 |
| Palabra clave: | Dirección escolar dirigir administrar liderar |