Cultura y liderazgo escolar: factores claves para el desarrollo de la inclusión educativa / Culture and school leadership: key factors to develop an inclusive education

Abstract

The following work is a theoretical essay in which an analysis of inclusion of children with disabilities’s process in Chile is presented. It is considered that the school culture and leadership are key factors in school management. Specifically, it is argued that school culture has characteristics that would impact in acceptability and effectiveness of inclusive education. Its proper implementation requires organizational change processes that create a culture according to the requirements of inclusion; otherwise, including stays at the declarative level, which would sometimes keep exclusionary practices in schools. It is concluded that culture and school leadership are important tools for the development of inclusive education tools. Coinciding with Booth & Ainscow’s model school management should promote a culture that allows this inclusion. To do this Project real we need a school leadership to consider beliefs and values in the implementation of practices respecting diversity.