García PI; García JMT; Arós RB (2014). Institutional self-assessment and headship in inclusive schools. Teoría De La Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria, 26(2), 229-257. DOI: 10.14201/teoredu2014261229257
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Teoría De La Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria. 26 (2): 229-257
Abstract:
Educational inclusion is a must for school effectiveness, which is directly related to the quality of the teaching staff and headmasters. The institutional self-assessment appears as a core process to lead struggling schools towards comprehensive goals of socio-educative inclusion. We present a collegial self-assessment process that was carried out between the university and the management teams in primary schools from areas with socio-educational issues. We aim to characterize and improve the leadership skills in those contexts. The methodology (action-research) makes it possible to approach the conditions faced by the management team from a participatory and self-managed perspective. The collegial self-assessment, a process weakly controlled by head teachers, allows the management teams to focus on other complex functions: the internal coordination of their schools, the family-school relationships and the collaborative networks between schools and community. This enables them to deepen into a distributed, pedagogical and contextualized leadership.
Educational inclusion is a must for school effectiveness, which is directly related to the quality of the teaching staff and headmasters. The institutional self-assessment appears as a core process to lead struggling schools towards comprehensive goals of socio-educative inclusion. We present a collegial self-assessment process that was carried out between the university and the management teams in primary schools from areas with socio-educational issues. We aim to characterize and improve the leadership skills in those contexts. The methodology (action-research) makes it possible to approach the conditions faced by the management team from a participatory and self-managed perspective. The collegial self-assessment, a process weakly controlled by head teachers, allows the management teams to focus on other complex functions: the internal coordination of their schools, the family-school relationships and the collaborative networks between schools and community. This enables them to deepen into a distributed, pedagogical and contextualized leadership.
Education,Education & Educational Research,Philosophy Trabajo en red Struggling schools Social-educational inclusion School headship Networking between schools Liderazgo Institutional self-assessment Dirección escolar Autoevaluación institucional Action-research Revistas de ciencias de la educación Philosophy Pedagogical & educational research Education & educational research Education Educación Educació Ciencias sociales Ciencias de la educación