La dirección y el liderazgo: aceptación, conflicto y calidad

Authors

Isabel Cantón MayoSalto de línea Ana Rosa Arias GagoSalto de línea Universidad de León. Departamento de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación. León, España.

Abstract

School Administration and Leadership:Acceptance, Conflict and QualitySalto de línea Salto de línea The final objective of this article is to describe the directive tasks taking into account the opinion that head teachers have as regards their actions and teachers' point of view of such activity through the influence on quality, conflicts and the acceptance of the corresponding tasks.The type of research carried out is an ex-post-facto one, although taking into consideration a set of values to estimate the relationships among the variables. For this reason, the information with exploratory aims using the descriptive-interpretive method is analysed. This kind of method allows the study of the person concerning his/her capacity and response to certain situations, since he/she is considered as being part of an all integrated to a holistic, global and versatile, tangible and intangible reality, dynamic and in continuous change.Salto de línea As stated in this paper, leadership should be considered from the point of view of an efficient agent (professional leadership), identifiable with the formal position occupied by a person (school administration).Taking into account the moral environment,it is the expression of a dynamic and community organization (emotional leadership) of a social-educational type (pedagogical leadership), all of this considered from a triple valuation, assuming his/her tasks from the acceptance, the conflict, and the quality represented by the functions.Thus, he/she may say to be the head teacher of a school that learns with a vision on future, exerting a humanist administration.As regards the latter, our view is directed towards a humanist guidance which takes into account the quality of people and avoids the associative idea of quality-product: There is not institutional neither professional quality without personal quality.

Keywords

Leadership, professional leadership, emotional leadership, pedagogical leadership, school administration, conflict, quality.