WORDS REMAIN, DO MEANINGS CHANGE? AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROGRESSIVE CONSOLIDATION OF THE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT APPROACH

This study aims to analyze the origin and consolidation of the term «management» within the educational field. The practices made by the management of a public secondary school from the city of Córdoba, Argentina, are analyzed. To this effect, specialized bibliography and the education policy arisin...

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Autor principal: Kasprzyk, César Mauricio
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Humanidades, Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación 2024
Materias:
school managers
management
education policy
reforms
directoras/es de escuelas
gestión
políticas educativas
reformas
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/riie/article/view/8046
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Revistas UNNE - Universidad Nacional del Noroeste (UNNE) de Universidad Nacional del Nordeste
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Sumario:This study aims to analyze the origin and consolidation of the term «management» within the educational field. The practices made by the management of a public secondary school from the city of Córdoba, Argentina, are analyzed. To this effect, specialized bibliography and the education policy arising from the last national and provincial laws are reviewed enabling the article to present a qualitative approach to empirical information. The emergence of the term and the theoretical contributions are scrutinized from the conceptual history perspective. During the last decades, the concept of management has been highly evoked in education policy, which encompasses the concept’s multiple meanings. This situation favored the concept’s circulation within the academic and political spheres as well as its introduction to the pedagogical language used by the school principals, who referred to their professional tasks as constituents of the management team. Furthermore, the interviewed school managers explicit the need of training and acquisition of management tools, which represent both a moral technology and an autoregulation device. All things considered, in spite of the criticism to the approach, we hold that the term «management» has gained legitimacy and has become part of the school conduction practices.

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