Management scolastico e governance territoriale: lo studio di sei istituzioni scolastiche della provincia di Salerno

Abstract

This paper has as its object of study analysis of a specific organizational role of the new Italian school system, called 'instrumental function to POF', and formally established by the National Collective Bargaining Agreement of 1999. The field investigation was limited to six comprehensive schools of two towns in the Province of Salerno, where in the school year 2012/13, were instructed forty teachers. The collection of information, to be of greater interest, came through the conduction of semi-structured interviews, associated with the use of participant observation and systematic collection of institutional documents. The results achieved in the course of operations research, interpreted in the form of metaphors, aim for the understanding of the same charge of Functions Instrumental able to exert their influence on the professional shared leadership of the six schools involved, and to what extent their actions overall he recorded both on the operational strategies within and outside organizations themselves. The information collected and analyzed, obtained by a predominantly qualitative research methodology, they have no claim to generalization. [edited by author]