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Lopez-Delgado, Manuel – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2018
The understanding that leadership matters is well regarded in many types of organizations not only in education. In 2015 Mexico implemented a new system to appoint school leaders updating the previous, which was applied for more than four decades. This system aims to appoint the most competent candidate as school principal based on the scores they…
Descriptors: School Administration, Principals, Leadership Training, Faculty Development
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Rockwell, Elsie – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2009
This article analyses the changing role of the principal in Mexico, during a period, 1921-1934, in which the configurations sustaining and surrounding schooling were profoundly transformed. It compares the experience of three "directores" working in towns that differed in their expectations and relationship to state and federal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Government, Principals, Administrator Role
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Paradise, Ruth – Peabody Journal of Education, 1994
Describes changes in school practices in a rural Mexican elementary school, presenting examples of social interactions that illustrate how the changes were constructed and the nature of the underlying cultural compatibility they expressed. Teacher-student relations became characterized by a tacitly recognized acceptance and respect of Mazahua…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences