¿Por qué es esencial discutir acerca del liderazgo en la gestión escolar?

The purpose of this article is to analyze some aspects of vital importance to educational organizations: Educational Leadership. Leadership is a big issue that has being an interest for many authors. The term gives a connotation of images that include powerful, dynamic and intelligent people. The ma...

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Autor: Vargas Jiménez, Ileana
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2010
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositório:Portal de Revistas UNA
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/1509
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/EDUCARE/article/view/1509
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:leadership
management
formal authority
informal authority
vision
liderazgo
gestión escolar
autoridad formal
autoridad informal
visión
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Resumo:The purpose of this article is to analyze some aspects of vital importance to educational organizations: Educational Leadership. Leadership is a big issue that has being an interest for many authors. The term gives a connotation of images that include powerful, dynamic and intelligent people. The majority of leadership analysis recognizes the fact that it can occur in all the organizations. This article suggests a brief explanation of what leadership means, and it explains two theories that have been developed and have an impact in the educational system: the transactional theory and the transformational theory. Therefore, this article mentions some basic elements about transformational leadership in a school´s principal. Finally, there is an explanation about the vision of an educational organization and how this one links its leadership with the educational organizations in general.