Estilos de liderança

: perceções e impactos na escola

Abstract

School leadership has been the subject of extensive research. In its genesis, it focused on the characteristics of a good leader, considering that the ability to lead would be innate. The investigation evolves, driven by the deepening knowledge, of the phenomenon of School Leadership and the study of Leadership Styles, supported by the conviction that leadership must be taught and learned. Starting from the Effective School Movement (Mace-Matluck, 1987), we followed the investigation in strengthening the instructional leadership construct. We have followed the growing interest of researchers by the school and in the multiple leaders that emerge from it, by the context that guided us to the organizational development of each school and by the perception of how the change will have to operate on a micro scale, assuming each school as a unit of improvement, through the elevation of its social, professional and human capital. We are especially interested in the tension that leads to the contraction of instructional leadership, shared and transformational, in leadership for learning (Bolivar, 2012). We equipped ourselves with key concepts, which consolidated the theoretical lens through which we intended to learn the leadership practices in the school we identified. The objective of our work is to know the perception and impact of leadership at school, through an intrinsic case study. To do this, it is important to know how leadership practices are characterized in this school. It is also important to listen to the voices of principals, class directors, teachers and students, to learn how they perceive these practices, and their impact on improving the quality of educational processes and results. And, finally, to detect how pedagogical practices, teaching-learning and assessment strategies, are perceived by the social agents that we called for our study and whether they are more effective for the promotion of educational success.

Date of Award	22 Jun 2021
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	José Matias Alves (Supervisor)