The role of the leadership team on inclusion policies in Chile

Abstract

This article reports the results of a documentary study on inclusion educational policies in order to get to know the demands that are assigned to leadership teams in the context of the New Public Management (NGP, for its name in Spanish) in Chile. Using a qualitative approach, 26 official texts were analyzed through the pragmatic discourse analysis technique. The results show that the main request to leadership teams is that they take responsibility for curricular coverage and the academic results through adult-centered collaborative work and the administration of resources, protocols, and management instruments. The implications of this study provide guidelines to rethink the analysis of educational policies.