Características, impactos y antecedentes del modelo de liderazgo escolar transformacional (Characteristics, impacts and background of the transformational school leadership model)
Authors: Sun Jingping 
Published: January 2019

Based on research evidence from the origins of transformational leadership in the seventies, the author claims that this approach is the one that presents the highest incidence in the policies of promotion of school leadership and the one that has the largest number of empirical studies carried out. His chapter analyzes the evidence regarding the strong influence of transformational leadership of managers in the emotional state of teachers, their job satisfaction and their commitment to school, as well as its relevant effect on the practices that teachers perform, reviewing its effect regarding the academic results of the students, which would also affect, although in a milder way, through the teachers.ResumoCom base em evidências de pesquisas sobre as origens da liderança transformacional nos anos setenta, o autor assegura que essa abordagem é a que apresenta maior incidência nas políticas de promoção de liderança escolar e aquela que possui o maior número de estudos empíricos realizados. Seu artigo analisa evidências sobre a forte in?uência transformacional da liderança dos gestores no estado emocional, na satisfação com o trabalho e no compromisso dos professores com a escola, bem como seu efeito relevante nas práticas que os professores realizam, revendo seu efeito nos resultados acadêmicos dos alunos, o que também afetaria, ainda que de forma mais branda, através dos professores.ResumenA partir de la evidencia de investigaciones desde los orígenes del liderazgo transformacional en los años setenta, la autora asegura que este enfoque es el de mayor incidencia en las políticas de fomento del liderazgo directivo escolar y el que tiene el mayor número de estudios empíricos realizados. Su capítulo analiza la evidencia respecto a la fuerte incidencia del liderazgo transformacional de los directivos en el estado emocional de los docentes, su satisfacción laboral y su compromiso con la escuela, así como su efecto relevante en las prácticas que los docentes realizan, revisando su efecto respecto los resultados académicos de los alumnos, en los que también incidiría, aunque de modo más leve y a través de los docentes.Keywords: Transformational leadership, Teaching practices, Leadership effect, Academic results of the students.Palavras-chave: Liderança transformacional, Práticas de ensino, Efeito de liderança, Resultados acadêmicos dos alunos.Palabras claves: Liderazgo transformacional, Docentes prácticas, Liderazgo efecto, Resultados académicos de los alumnos.ReferencesANTONAKIS, J.; CIANCIOLO, A. T.; STERNBERG, R. J. Leadership: Past, present and future. In: ANTONAKIS, J.; CIANCIOLO, A. T; STERNBERG, R. J. (Eds.), The nature of leadership. 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