Middle leadership and the development of communities of professional practice. Emerging lessons from a case study.

Educational inclusion and success for all and between all need professional learning communities and leadership for social justice. The topic is complex. It needs the confluence of an entire community and a shared and co-responsible leadership. The school system has support services that can assume...

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Autores principales: Beatriz Barrero Fernández; Profesora de Universidad Granada, Jesús Domingo Segovia; Universidad de Granada, Juan De Dios Fernández Gálvez; Orientador de la Junta de Andalucía
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 2020
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Acceso en línea:http://www.psicoperspectivas.cl/index.php/psicoperspectivas/article/view/1751
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/80775
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Sumario:Educational inclusion and success for all and between all need professional learning communities and leadership for social justice. The topic is complex. It needs the confluence of an entire community and a shared and co-responsible leadership. The school system has support services that can assume the role of critical colleagues and middle and connective leaders. A well articulated system with leadership networks and with the participation of these middle leaders can be a good solution. This article collects research evidence from a case study from an autobiographical perspective on the development of this type of leadership, being the study followed during four school courses. Contextualized and contrasted with discussion groups and in-depth interviews, it concludes that the counselor, acting as a critical colleague, can exercise this role of middle leader, motivator and inter-linker of a professional learning community.