Abstract

GAVA, Shirley Aparecida  and  NASCENTE, Renata Maria Moschen. Relationships between leadership styles, principal selection methods and school management practices. J. Pol. Educ-s [online]. 2023, vol.17, 91868e.  Epub May 06, 2024. ISSN 1981-1969.  https://doi.org/10.5380/jpe.vl7i0.91868.

The text refers to the possible relationships among leadership styles, forms of principal selection and school management practices. Thus, the general objective was to identify the forms of selection and the leadership styles of these professional groups in elementary and post-elementary education. The specific objective was to clarify these relationships about school management practices, referenced in national digital publications, based on empirical research, from 2011 to 2021. The methodological approach was qualitative and exploratory, having as main method bibliographical research and as procedure the categorical content analysis technique, by means of the MAXQDA 22 software to process and organize the data. The results demonstrated the predominance of the managerial style of leadership, regardless of the forms of selection, and that the practices of these professionals, as natural institutional leaders, have prioritized and reinforced predominantly individualized forms of power and unilateral decision-making, which contribute to maintaining organizational structures impermeable, hindering and/or preventing the manifestation of school democracy and maintaining the hierarchy's overload on the relationships among different school agents.

Keywords : Forms of principal selection; Leadership styles; School administration practices; Public school democratic management.

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