Director’s leadership in the Portuguese educational context: ethics and morality, what skills and trends

• Autor(a) principal: Neves, Lurdes
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Coimbra, Joaquim Luís
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_60-2_7
• topic: directors; education; leadership; diretores; educação; liderança

The school, as the basic unit and a space for the achievement of objectives and goals of the education system, is constantly being renovated, becoming a major challenge for the directors, because it requires of them new skills, knowledge, abilities and attitudes that converge in the need of development of skills for making the decisions more participatory and fair. This study goal is to identify in 30 educational directors of school groups, their leadership perceptions and practices. To achieve this goal, a mix study has been carried out using semi-structured interviews and three leadership scales (ethical, moral and transformational). It was found that the leadership perceptions vary between transactional and transformational and that some leadership skills are predictors of the type of leadership exercised.