Distributed Leadership and Capacity for Improvement of Secondary Schools

Abstract

The article we submit is an approach to the study of leadership on secondary schools and seeks to verify the presence or absence of distributed leadership arranged in a sample of 24 secondary schools in the Granada province. Applying a mixed methodology in which self-analysis outlines and semi-structured interviews are combined, it comes to the conclusion that the actual leadership model in the analysed secondary schools sample is a bureaucratic one supported by the figure of a director acting on his/her own. Although the sample used for the study is limited, the article encourages the reflection on the need to define the director figure as a key element in order to stimulate secondary schools' improvement capacity.