Confidence and care in the school leadership of Chilean principals.

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n53.830

Keywords:

trust care, women, school principal

Abstract

Current discussions regarding school leadership have emphasized the value of interpersonal relationships within the school to enhance the improvement of educational communities. In turn, they have pointed out that these play a preponderant role in contexts of vulnerability. Within this framework, this article seeks to reflect on how practices of trust and care are expressed in the discourses concerning the exercise of leadership by female principals of educational establishments in the metropolitan region. This research was of a qualitative nature and included the discourse of ten female principals. The reflections presented here are part of a broader research process, which involved research positioned from a biographical and narrative approach. Among the main results, the existence of a permanent concern on the part of the principals to develop practices that promote care within the work teams and the construction of a climate of trust within the framework of the relationships established in the educational communities.

Downloads

Published

2020-12-31

Issue

No. 53 (2020)

Section

RESEARCH PAPERS

License

Authors retain their Copyright and only transfer a part of these to the journal, accepting the following conditions:

Authors keep their rights as authors and guarantee the right to the journal for the first publication of their work, which is simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Attribution license allowing third parties to share the study accrediting the author and first publication in this journal.

Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the version of the published work (e.g. inclusion in an institutional thematic file or publication in a monographic volume) accrediting initial publication in this journal.

Authors are allowed and recommended to share their work over the Internet (e.g. in institutional telematic files or their website) before and during the submission process, which may lead to interesting exchanges and increased citation of the published work. (See The effect of open access).