Educational leadership and management techniques
Marina Tomás i Folch, Tenured Lecturer at the UAB, presents his work which has been focused on the analysis of educational leadership and presentation of strategies and tools for the practice of leadership.
El material presentado tiene por objetivo ser una guía para los estudiantes y profesionales de la educación que se inician en la dirección de un grupo, o que deseen conocer las principales técnicas e instrumentos para facilitar la dirección de equipos y grupos. Es persiguiendo esta meta que los objetivos del manual se concretan en:
The material presented is intended as a guide for students and education professionals who are new to the management of a group, or who wish to know the main techniques and tools to facilitate the management of teams and groups. It is for pursuing this goal that objectives of the manual concentrate in:
- To assimilate the most relevant theories on leadership for contextualizing them in the educational world.
- To see the necessity that managers need to learn techniques to perform their functions.
- To acquire strategies to lead groups and institutions.
- To capture and to be aware of how to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different styles of leadership in groups and institutions.
- To learn to use different strategies and management techniques.
- To identify the most appropriate leadership for educational change.
- To use different instruments related to leadership.
- To identify the strengths and weaknesses of different styles of leading groups and institutions.
- To reflect on the power and responsibilities that involve the exercise of management functions and leadership.
The structure of each issue is similar. That is, first it justifies the interest of the subject, secondly develops concepts, theories and techniques of the same and, finally, provides specific references and a proposal for activities that can implement the content of the issue.
Marina Tomás i Folch is lecturer in the Department of Applied Pedagogy at UAB and member of EDO. His teaching and research revolves around the issues of organization of centers: educational leadership, culture and climate in organizations, organizational development, change and innovation and gender and university. She is the author of several textbooks and several articles of research in Spanish journals such as Educar, Journal of Education, Bordon and Education of the 21st Century, and in English journals Administration and Leadership and The International Journal of Learning.
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