Características del liderazgo transformacional de los directores de educación preescolar según los docentes expertos

El liderazgo directivo actualmente es considerado como parte fundamental en el quehacer educativo, dado que el director es la persona que se encarga de llevar la organización y el orden apoyado del personal docente y la comunidad educativa dentro de las instituciones. En esta investigación se tiene como propósito caracterizar el liderazgo transformacional de los directores de educación preescolar según la opinión de los docentes expertos del nivel. Para recabar los datos de dichas opiniones se aplicó una encuesta con escala Likert, la metodología es cuantitativa no experimental y descriptiva, realizando el análisis en el SPSS. Los resultados obtenidos indican que los profesores expertos de educación preescolar encuestados prefieren directivos carismáticos y se concluye que la principal característica del liderazgo transformacional de sus directivos es la inspiración y motivación que transmiten a sus equipos de trabajo. Abstract Today, leadership management is considered a fundamental part of educational endeavors, given that directors are the people entrusted to carry out a school’s order and organization with the support of their teaching staff and educational community within the institute. This research aims to specify transformational leadership traits in preschool directors defined by expert teachers in that level. To compile said opinions, we applied a survey with a Likert scale. The methodology used is non-experimental quantitative and descriptive and was performed with the application of an SPPSS. The results obtained indicate that expert pre-school teachers surveyed prefer charismatic directors. We conclude that principal transformational leadership characteristics which directors possess are, inspiration and motivation that they transmit to their workforce.

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