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Revista Colombiana de Educación
Print version ISSN 0120-3916
Abstract
PINO-MONTOYA, Jose Wilmar and CASTANO GOMEZ, Melina. Quality of Education Regarding Community Management in Nine Educational Establishments of Medellín: 2010 to 2013. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2019, n.77, pp.129-150. ISSN 0120-3916. https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num77-4925.
The purpose of this work is to recognize the conceptions of community management, the practices associated thereto, and their impact on the academic-pedagogical improvement of the participating schools. In this research, privilege was given to the qualitative study in perspective of a comprehensive hermeneutics. Nine interviews were carried out with executives and teachers from nine schools-both public and private-in Medellín that participated in the Ciudad de Medellín awards for Quality in Education. It was found that the community management of the researched schools focused on their relationship with the context, the projection to the community, the interinstitutional relations, the follow-up on graduates and risk prevention. By way of conclusion, it is highlighted that the schools that participated in the awards strengthen their community management by forming alliances with other organizations, which strengthens the construction of the social fabric and contributes to improving their educational management.
Keywords : education; educational assessment; educational policy; educational improvement; secondary education.