Principal's Actions Through Distributed Leadership Dimensions: A Case Study of Two Public Spanish Schools
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Distributed leadership, Dimensions, Principal, Qualitative study, Case study, Spanish Publics SchoolsAbstract
Experience has shown that the attitude of the person assuming the management functions in the school is a key and decisive element in the quality of the change processes in the school. Of these ideas is born, the concept of distributed leadership (DL). The research design is a case study. The main objective is to understand the four dimensions of DL and the actions of the Principal through representative cases of two schools. The techniques used to collect information were documentary analysis, questionnaires, in-depth semi-structured interviews, and observation. An analysis of the data and conclusions are provided.
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