Principals' perceptions on the practice of distributed leadership: a quantitative study

Ingrid del Valle García Carreño

doi:10.21723/riaee.v13.n1.2018.10615

Autores

Ingrid del Valle García Carreño Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9727-4611

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21723/riaee.v13.n1.2018.10615

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Distributed leadership. Principals. Quantitative study. Primary schools.

Resumo

The aim of this paper is to describe distributed leadership practices (DLP) in order to know the point of view of the directors of primary education centers of the Community of Madrid, Spain. It has been framed in a quantitative methodology, and a descriptive study, with a pilot test; also, it has been constructed and validated the ad hoc questionnaire "Distributed leadership practices of the Principal school", that allows collecting the perception that develops the directors (as) in the context studied, and to know the relevance that they grant to them. The results found are very broad and correspond to the set of directors (as) surveyed. This research presents the results of the DLP, which refers to the responses given by the group of school directors in one of the four dimensions (DLP, Shared Decisions, Mission, Vision and Professional Development).

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Biografia do Autor

Ingrid del Valle García Carreño, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla

Licenciada en Contaduría Pública y Administración, Especialista y Magister Sciencium en Administración por la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela. Especialista en Educación Superior por la Universidad Gran Mariscal Ayacucho, Venezuela. Doctoranda en Finanzas por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y en Educación por la Universidad Pablo de Olavide. 15 años de experiencia en funciones directivas y profesora universitaria en todos los niveles. Sus intereses se centran en el estudio del liderazgo distribuido y las organizaciones educativas. Posee numerosas asistencias a Congresos Internacionales y publicaciones en revistas internacionales. Miembro de la comisión editorial de revistas científicas. Los trabajos relacionados son: por la Universidad Lusofona de Lisboa: Una visión del liderazgo educativo a través del prisma del liderazgo distribuido: Caso de estudio y el 28º Colóquio Internacional da ADMEE-Europe Universidad de Lisboa: "Liderança Distribuída a partir de uma visão da gestão escolar em algumas escolas de Madrid". Sans Serif Enviar

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