School management in Latin America

The training centers and teachers are faced with new, diverse and complex situations, result in a more dynamic, more demanding society and more aware about the quality of services that users actually require. The new situation is pertinent that educational responses take into account the complexity of the phenomena and are differentiated depending on the context and the target, highlighting the need and desirability of making informed decisions and support related to their development.

Rapid generation and transformation of cultural contents, extent of schooling, student diversity, the new demands of a knowledge society and multicultural approaches to the contextualized curriculum or taking training as a collective task, among others require new responses. There are obvious changes in educational settings and, more importantly, the change as a challenge and continuing to the dynamic reality in which we answer arises.

We need, in this regard, managers beyond their organizational function and become facilitators and managers of the necessary changes. His new role requires personal and institutional changes include promoting and facilitating, while the maximum connection between personal development, institutional development, professional development and social development is sought.

The contributions provided promote the exchange of experiences and discussion from topics covered in each: a) the new roles of managers (community and social leaders, social justice advocates, ...); b) professional development (access, training, promotion and discharge); c) their teamwork, from the following presentations:

1. Managers in the Spanish context. Joaquín Gairín Sallán and Blanca Patricia Silva (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain).

2. managers in the context of North America. Guadalupe Palmero (U. Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico).

3. managers in the context of Central America. Norma Candida Tórrez Korea (U. Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua-Managua, Nicaragua)

4.-The managers in the context of countries andinos.Rosa Tafur Bridge (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)

5. managers in the context of Cone countries Sur. Mª Inés Vazquez (ORT, Montevideo) and Marta Quiroga (UV, Chile)

This proposal thus aims to contribute to the debate on the activity and development of managers of schools of compulsory education in Latin America. The starting point are the reports published about the Support Network for Educational Management (RedAGE: www.readage.org) and the arrival point relates to the search for common ground for public policies that promote institutional development through the exchange of experiences.

Symposia Presentation: http://goo.gl/BTZ2jm

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