Abstract

BOCCHIO, Maria Cecilia  and  GRINBERG, Silvia Mariela. Will you only work if you get the funds? Management, moral regulation and schools in the metropolitan periphery (córdoba, argentina). Rev. Exitus [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.2, pp.306-330.  Epub May 17, 2019. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2017v7n2id315.

In Argentina, since the 1990s, management logic has been the guiding principle in educational policy; it affects daily life at school and the work of principals. In this article, we propose that the logic associated with New Public Management (NPM) encourages moral regulation of practices, which has particular ethical implications for how principals perform their work. This article is part of broader research on regulatory processes in educational policies aimed at ensuring compulsory secondary schooling and processes we address from the perspective of principals attempting to do their work. We present a case study of a principal at a school located on the outskirts of the city of Córdoba. The students who attend the school are inserted in social processes of pauperization. Within the framework of governmentality studies in education and on the basis of empirical research performed at that school, we will discuss some of the aspects that the regulation of school life in management times entails. As a hypothesis we propose that the call to commitment with students and their unsatisfied social demands become the motor that regulates morally the principal and forces him to work for and despite not receiving the promised funds that the ministerial projects must provide.

Keywords : School Principal; Management; Moral Regulation.

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