Директорът – водещ социален актьор в инспектирането на качеството на българското образование

Abstract

Inspecting the quality of education is an innovative social phenomenon in the Bulgarian education system and presents the director with the challenges of two opposite roles: "assessed" and "assessing", as in the leading role of a participant in quality management. The article analyzes the social roles of the director of the educational institution, as well as some of the methods, concepts and tools of the evaluation of the quality of education. They are presented through the variety of social processes, and activities and interactions in the main stages of the inspection: preparatory, actual and final, which the director must know as a leading participant in the process of inspecting the quality of education. Under the social spotlight, the changes in the duties and responsibilities of the director as the main social actor in the society of the educational institution in planning, organizing, facilitating the inspection in the complex compilation of the social roles performed by him/her, of evaluator, evaluated, self-evaluator and finally, together with the inspection team, a direct participant in the quality management of the educational institution.