A Study on the Influence of Educational Leadership on the Development of Inclusive Schools. Documentary Review
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Leadership, inclusion, good practices, participatory research, familyAbstract
Educational leadership as a key element for the development of inclusive schools is a topic that is becoming increasingly relevant, both for school administration and for teacher training in the field of management. The aim of the study presented here is to identify, analyze and report the scientific production indexed in the SCOPUS database on the inclusive leadership of management teams in the years 2015-2022. The method applied to understand the evolution of this topic was a descriptive documentary review with a sample of 40 documents from 29 journals indexed in the SCOPUS database, between 2015 and January 2022, using the descriptors ‘leadership’, ‘inclusive school’, ‘compulsory education’, ‘practices’, ‘participatory research’ and ‘families’. The results of this study show that the concept of educational or pedagogical leadership has evolved as a consequence of the dynamism of inclusive education: from the view of the educational leader as a manager and facilitator of good practices related to inclusive education, through the promotion of fair schools which respond to the needs of the educational community in schools so that the school becomes a space for inclusion.
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