El liderazgo directivo como herramienta para la gestión escolar en educación primaria

Abstract

The purpose of this documentary research article was to investigate the influence that managerial leadership exerts to efficiently carry out the management process in a school institution, as well as determine the most effective type of leadership in said process. In this research, the methodology of conceptual cartography was used, which consists of systematizing, analyzing, constructing, communicating and learning concepts and theories, based on eight axes which are: notion, categorization, characterization, differentiation, division or applications, linkage. , methodology and exemplification. The results achieved were to differentiate the characteristics of each of the leadership styles that a school manager can exercise in his or her workplace; identify which of these leadership styles, with their practice, promoted more effective school management and; determine that the practice of a single leadership style in a primary educational institution is less effective than combining two or more of them. Concluding that directive leadership within the school is identified as the second factor that has the most impact on learning processes; that the director becomes the school leader who professionally assumes the direction of the educational establishment and as such communicates and interacts with others to, mainly, develop institutional management and make decisions and; Since the role played by the director is not an easy task, it is necessary to acquire certain knowledge that allows him to link what he has learned with practice, with the purpose of focusing attention on the needs that arise.