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The paper offers a revision about the current state of the component of educational  organisations, the so-called leadership. After a conceptualization, theoretical and historically based on the analysis of the abundant existing scientific production, the concept is then characterised in the paper by these features: it is a kaleidoscopic, integrative, prescribed, coveted, ambiguous-deceitful and competent term, divorced from the practice.   Key Words:  Leadership, leadership theories, institutional leadership, leaderhip’s features

The boards of directors are subject to strong political and contextual pressures that on one  side, make difficult the practice of an instructional leadership and, on the other, head for a bureaucratic, managerial and perpetualizing development of its function. The situation is revised by means of resources and significant experts from so disparate locations as the United States of America, Finland, Russia or South Africa. The paper also makes evident the role the main international journals about that field are playing, being one of them directed

From a nation-wide research, directed by the author of this paper, we describe the headship leadership in centres which are scarcely studied, such as Vocational Training. The contributions of this paper as regards the roles, functions and competences of those centres headships are enriched by two facts: the contextualization and the inclusion in the Italian educational system and in the empirical research.   Key Words: Educational headship, headship in centres for Vocational Training, Vocational Training, Italian educational system

The paper approaches leadership in the educational institutions, certainly with a Portuguese emphasis, but situated in the appropriate context and founded as a historical construction that runs in a parallel way and at the same time determines and is determined by the schools autonomy and its different meanings. That way, we expose the different school environments where leadership is developed, the headship above all.   Key Words:  Leadership for autonomy, school’s leadership, school headship in Portugal

This article analyzes the accession to the principalship position in Educational Institutions in Spain. Starting from the consideration that the principalship is a vitally important aspect for the Educational in Primary and Secondary level System, we carry out a review of the problem taking the scientific fundamentals currently available as a basis to properly solve it. The main point of view of the author is about the need of professionalizing the principalship position, considering this as a key element in the pedagogic revitalization of Educational

The study explores the role of teacher leadership as a substantive topic for organizational analysis of schools. First, the concept of educational leadership in schools is revised. Next, is necessary to show the presence and relevance of teacher leadership as an indicator of democratic health and teaching and learning in the improvement process in schools. The relationship between leadership and teachers is explored for a new understanding of: teachers work; decision-making; professional development and organizational development. Finally we incorporate

This paper examines the relationship between teacher self-efficacy beliefs and some educational uneasiness indicators. For this aim, 71 secondary teachers answered the Teachers´ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES). The relation between TSES scores and scores from Teacher Burnout Questionnaire-Revised (CBP-R), Symptoms Checklist-90-R, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and some labour absenteeism data (number of medical leaves, number of days of each medical leave and number of work absences) was analyzed. Results show significant, negative correlations

The purpose of this article is to analyze the assessment is the only way of guaranteeing quality in Infant Toddler practices. For this reason, firstly, this article develops the justification for assessing Infant Toddler interventions. Secondly, it enunciates the benefits related apparently to the quality of interventions and to what an early childhood quality program produces in children.   Key Words: Quality, Infant Toddler education, assessment, indicators

The educational innovation projects carried out in work groups constitute a valuable strategy in teachers education. In this paper a multicase qualitative study is presented. It is aimed to advance the understanding of the processes involved in educational innovations. A qualitative analysis of five cases of university lecturers taking part in different work groups was developed. Lecturers were selected from different degrees from the University of Malaga. All of them have been involved in educational innovation programmes for at least three years.

The research that we propose seeks to identify and to give to know the beliefs that students teacher of the Granada University possess on the university practical formation after their immersion in the field experiences. In short, we want to verify if the immersion in the scenarios of practicum produces differential effects in the beliefs that the students teacher possess on the practical teaching. Theresults obtained through statistical processing applied to the data gained through inventory of beliefs, make ad hoc, show that a significant association