Pedagogical Leadership within the Framework of Human Talent Management: A Comprehensive Approach from the Perspective of Higher Education in Ecuador

Magda Francisca Cejas Martínez,Mercedes Navarro Cejas,Derling Jose Mendoza Velazco,Juan Pablo Morales Corozo

doi:10.15507/1991-9468.102.025.202101.008-021

Abstract

Introduction. University higher education in recent decades has seen the need to participate in projects that lead to its evolution, transformation and adaptation to the demands of current times. The leading role of the teaching professional is becoming more visible in these changes, which is why it is considered that the recognition of it as a leader is of vital importance to transform reality. The study presented has as a general objective to study teacher leadership in the higher education system of Ecuador considering its leading role in the transformative participation of educational processes. Materials and Methods. The research carried out was part of the development of the mixed or qualitative methodology. This was a two-phase sequential study. The first quantitative phase involved a questionnaire with descriptive analysis, applied the reliability with the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The qualitative phase consisted of an interpretative documentary analysis. Results. The results showed that most of the teachers surveyed do not recognize themselves as leaders, or at least are not known as leaders in some areas of the educational processes in which they participate. Teachers have three types of leadership: instructional, distributed and university. Discussion and Conclusion. At the present time the participation, commitment and responsibility in the area of competence of the university teacher, the educational leadership represented in the professional of university teaching, it is vitally important to move from discourse to action and active participation in the transformation of the realities.

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University higher education in recent decades has seen the need to participate in projects that lead to its evolution, transformation and adaptation to the demands of current times
In line with the above, there are the reports of the European Higher Education Area, with the Declaration of Bribery2 which set out as main objective the harmonization of the architecture of the European higher education system, its national legibility and international with the professional integration of the graduates3, the Bologna Declaration system4 based on qualification cycles and European cooperation to guarantee the professional quality of masters and doctorates and establishment of a credit system (ECTS), The incorporation of new elements during the Bologna process to respond to the challenges of economic competitiveness, the network of seminar organizations for quality assessment, development of joint titles, use of the credit system, European mobility and lifelong learning5
The results show that the teachers surveyed agree and totally agree, in 66% that they recognize themselves as leaders when they are in the classroom, 57% that in the institution the teacher is not assumed as leader and 57% that leadership is only for managers

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Introduction

University higher education in recent decades has seen the need to participate in projects that lead to its evolution, transformation and adaptation to the demands of current times. The diversification of specialized university demand and complemented with technologies, renews and breaks with traditional paradigms, which makes the Higher Education environment a challenging and key institution in the assimilation of these transformations for future professionals who will join the society with the skills developed in their training time [1] The import of this can be seen in the different global movements of the last two decades to achieve quality, competitiveness, efficiency, productivity, social commitment, progress and innovation in the university education field, one of them being the World Declaration on higher education in the 21st century: Vision and Action, report that exposes: “. The Tuning Latin America Project; that arises from the experience of Europe, with the union of more than 135 European universities for the creation of the European Higher Education Area, mentioned above [2]

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