Abstract

MIRANDA BELTRAN, Sorangela. The directive management: a concept derived from the understandings of principals and coordinators at public schools in Bogota. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2016, vol.7, n.13, pp.562-589. ISSN 2007-7467.

This article gathers the main theoretical constructs and the conceptual construction about the category directive management that emerges from the research work in the post doctorate in Administration and Management of Educational Institutions at Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Docente CENID.(Center of Studies and Research for the Teacher Development)

The main objective of the research was the conceptual construction about the category “directive management”. It arose from the significances, meanings and understandings that the participant teachers (principals and coordinators from three public schools in Bogota - Colombia) constructed from their pedagogical and administrative practices.

This document is a conceptual construction that can be contrasted, compared and enriched with other experiences in this field. It tries to find diverse elements from empirical and theoretical perspectives that establish new horizons for the understanding of the category management in the educational context and mainly from the view of the principals and coordinators at public schools as a complex phenomenon with large debate in the current world.

The methodological design focused on the specific construction of a research work that comprised the epistemological components (from the hermeneutics, critical aspects and the participation of the ones involved in the process) and ontological (starting from the understandings of the known subject) as axes for the construction of a concept of management from the knowledge and reflexive practices of teachers as a way to contribute in the transformation and innovation in their daily work at schools.

Keywords : directive management; principals and coordinators; school; educational administration; addressing; leadership; communication.