The concept of leadership in educational spaces: scope and limits of an elastic word

Authors

  • Oscar Julian Cuesta Moreno Universidad Javeriana Author
  • Emilce Moreno Mosquera Profesora Departamento de Formación Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Author https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4058-5691

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18634/sophiaj.17v.1i.1010

Keywords:

educational leadership, school leadership, pedagogical leadership, school manager.

Abstract

The results of a documentary review on the definitions of educational leadership present in the works published on the subject in Latin America are presented. A query was made in digital databases. After analyzing 87 documents, it was established that conceptual ambiguity between educational, pedagogical and school leadership. In addition, that the leadership is framed administratively but that is not restricted to these spaces. It is concluded that it is necessary to formulate theories that constitute educational leadership as an object of study with ontologically defined features, to avoid epistemological distortions and accumulate knowledge on this subject.

Author Biographies

  • Oscar Julian Cuesta Moreno, Universidad Javeriana
    Doctor en Ciencias Sociales. Doctor en Conocimiento y Cultura en América Latina.Comunicador social. Magíster en Educación. Docente e investigador de la Facultad deEducación de la Universidad Javeriana. Director del grupo de investigación Formación,Políticas y Subjetividades. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7181-1183
  • Emilce Moreno Mosquera, Profesora Departamento de Formación Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
    Licenciada en Español y Filología Clásica y Magíster en Lingüística. Doctora enEducación. Docente e investigadora de áreas relacionadas con el campo de la didácticade la lectura y escritura y áreas afines a la lingüística en la Facultad de Educación de laUniversidad Javeriana. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4058-5691

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Published

2021-06-21

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2021): Continuous Publication

Section

Review Articles

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Copyright (c) 2021 Oscar Julian Cuesta Moreno, Emilce Moreno Mosquera

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Articles in Sophia are distributed under a CC BY 4.0 licence and their authors retain copyright without restrictions. Articles in volume 21 (2025) were published under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How to Cite

Cuesta Moreno, O. J., & Moreno Mosquera, E. . (2021). The concept of leadership in educational spaces: scope and limits of an elastic word. Sophia, 17(1), e1010. https://doi.org/10.18634/sophiaj.17v.1i.1010