E) Procesos de formación y actores de la educación
The (In) definition of the functions of the Mexican deputy principal
Claudia Navarro-Corona- Norma Guadalupe Pesqueira Bustamante
- Karina Alejandra Cruz Pallares
Published 2018-09-20
Keywords
- School management,
- school deputy principal,
- secondary education,
- managerial functions,
- Mexico
- Gestión escolar,
- subdirección escolar,
- educación secundaria,
- funciones directivas,
- México
How to Cite
Navarro-Corona, C., Bustamante, N. G. P., & Cruz Pallares, K. A. (2018). The (In) definition of the functions of the Mexican deputy principal. RECIE. Revista Electrónica Científica De Investigación Educativa, 4(1), 527-539. Retrieved from https://rediech.org/ojs/2017/index.php/recie/article/view/347
Abstract
After six years of operation of the Educational Reform in Mexico, there are still gaps regarding the conceptualization of management positions. The approach found in the Parameters and Indicators Profiles (PPI) specifies two types of sub-director: one academic and one management with areas of differentiated competences; however, in practice there is a difficulty in delimiting the work fields of these figures. This paper presents partial results of a research already completed in which the functions reported by sub-directors in northwestern Mexico are analyzed and the role they play in their educational centers is analyzed. In the light of the literature, the results show that the functions performed by the deputy directors are not very enriching, fractionated and are not homogeneous in the in the different schools. The main contribution of this work is the visibility that, in practice, the configuration of the functions of the position of the school sub-direction is still in transit towards the achievement of the profiles defined in the official documents so that two realities coexist: that of practice and that of educational policy.