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Strategic Management as Key to improve the Quality of Education
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Abstract During the last decade education systems have been undergoing a long process of restructuring from a model of educational management that was deeply rooted in the past to a strategic management model that is focused on the future. The present study aims to make a contribution in this direction. Firs... view more
During the last decade education systems have been undergoing a long process of restructuring from a model of educational management that was deeply rooted in the past to a strategic management model that is focused on the future. The present study aims to make a contribution in this direction. Firstly, we review the current scenario of change, and explore sustainable improvement in education as priority objective in educational management, making it clear that the most significant changes are those that are focused on improvement and on the educational establishment itself. Secondly, after finding that at both national
and international level there is a growing consensus in the research about the existence of certain key elements that are necessary in order to achieve this improvement these being strategic educational management and effective educational leadership we describe the distinctive characteristics and the main components of this type of management in education. The paper ends with several implications for improving educational practice. In particular, some basic competences for the professionalization of educational management are outlined.... view less
Keywords
education; education system; quality assurance; strategic management; education administration; professionalization
Classification
Macroanalysis of the Education System, Economics of Education, Educational Policy
Free Keywords
Leadership; Educational Improvement
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 270-274
Journal
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (2013) 81
ISSN
1877-0428
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0