Training for school directors in Córdoba, Argentina. A brief approach

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to focus on the training of school principals, highlighting the problematic points of the continuing education policies aimed at this group in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. The present essay is based on a documentary analysis of legislation and is structured through the following three arguments: multiple views on training for principals; multiple rules and regulations on training for school principals; and multiple tensions in continuing education for school principals. We maintain that training for principals in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, is in an unstable situation. The generation of policies, organisms and specific proposals that pretend to provide organicity to the continuous training for school principals is confirmed, nevertheless in practice this training is diluted in isolated proposals, of scarce connection with the reality of the educational institutions and liberated to the interest or need that each director identifies in a particular way. There is a need for a deep articulation between government agencies and institutions in order to build a coordinated training system, centered on the real needs of the management function and available to all principals and teachers who aspire to become school directors.