Liderança dos coordenadores de departamento

: estudo realizado num agrupamento da zona centro do país

Abstract

This Master dissertation focuses on the study of The teachers’ perception of the Department Coordinators’ Styles of Leadership within a « Agrupamento de Escolas» located in the centre area of Portugal. The issue of leadership has already been treated in many papers and studies and we considered it useful to learn how teachers deal with the leaders who are close to them. Thus, our study focuses on the intermediate leaderships embodied by the Department Coordinators. The main objective of this empirical study was to characterize the Department Coordinators’ Leadership from all the teaching levels of a «Agrupamento de Escolas» located in the centre of Portugal, specifically as far as the Department management, curricular development, staff management, problem solving and decision taking are concerned. This paper is based on a sample that includes two hundred and sixty-nine teachers from all the departments of the school we worked with and the Data was obtained through the application of questionnaires which were then treated statistically using a descriptive- inferential method. The results showed that those teachers are satisfied with the leadership shown by their coordinators. They consider that they are more efficient when they schedule and preside at meetings of their curricular department, when they encourage them to share experiences, represent the department teachers in the Pedagogical Council , acting as agents of transmission between this organ and the department, make sure that there is a real articulation between the department and the other structures of educational orientation, stimulate the creation of conditions that would favor the teachers’ training and support the less experienced teachers, promote the articulation between the teachers’ initial formation and their training in cooperation with the training structures, promote activities planning measures and make sure that the decisions and orientations from the Pedagogical Council are followed

Date of Award	2 Apr 2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Célia Ribeiro (Supervisor)