Abstract

BOCCHIO, María Cecilia. School Cluster policy: Mutation or "death" of the Principal`s work?. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2016, vol.29, n.1, pp.99-119. ISSN 0871-9187.  https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.6651.

The School Cluster (SC) policy defined a new regulatory model of school organization in Portugal. Throughout this article, based on a doctoral thesis, we try to: (a) account for the historical process until the establishment of the current SC policy; (b) address the implications of SC as a policy that, discursively, aims to promote decentralization of the Portuguese educational system. Afterward, we introduce (c) the main theoretical and methodological structure of the case study developed in a SC belonging to the Regional Directorate of Lisboa and Vale do Tejo and (d) we present some results obtained in the investigation. Finally, (e) we point out some of the main interpretive developments regarding the changes in school management of the fictionally called "SC Border", specifically in the position of its Director, an actor that is not going to return to the coordination and management of a single school.

Keywords : Educational policies; School Cluster; School Cluster Principal.

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