Identidad profesional de los directores escolares en España. Un enfoque biográfico narrativo

  1. Antonio Bolívar 1
  2. Maximiliano Ritacco 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada, España
  2. 2 Universidad de Zaragoza, España
Journal:
Opción: Revista de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales

ISSN: 1012-1587

Year of publication: 2016

Issue: 79

Pages: 163-183

Type: Article

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Abstract

The article presents a new approach to research on school leadership: the principals’ professional identity from a narrative approach, linked in turn successful school leadership. After a theoretical framework, the voices of 15 principals. Biographical interviews are gathered, analyzed taking into account sociocultural context in a combination of categories according to frequency rate categorical and its description as the voices of principals. Paper concludes, as a hypothesis to verify in this strands of research, if successful leadership practices depend largely on principals identities (being recognized).