Principios de la Formación Especializada del Director Escolar. Una Propuesta desde la Sistematización

Abstract

The formulation of a system of principles for the specialized formation of the school principal, in order to explain this process theoretically and to offer methodological orientations that help putting this into practice, was the main concern of a research task; its theoretical framework, the methodological conception, and results are included in this article. The methodological strategy followed to reach such objective was the systematization of the preceding theoretical experience related to the formation of school principals, other professionals of education, enterprise executives, and other working staff. The systematization process involved a detailed revision of a wide range of bibliographical sources. The established principles are the following: a) the link between the initial formation of the educator and the specialized formation (initial and permanent) for school leadership, b) the conditioned character between the orientation referents and the social pertinence of the formation, c) the systemic, progressive, and planned approach of the formation, d) the relation between the contextualized content of the formation, the cooperative group work, and the attention to individual differences in the formative process, and e) the relation between the systematic character of evaluation and the qualitative improvement of the process and the results of the formation.