THE POWER AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES

Power, Influence and Decision Making

The Micropolitics

Internal and External participation

Conflict as an inevitable component of Social Organizations

Rights and Duties of the members of the School Community

Learning to live together: Educational Objective of the Organization

Coexistence: A Global Organizational Approach

Power can be defined as the ability of an individual or group of individuals to modify the behavior of other individuals or groups in the desired way and to prevent their own behavior from being modified in the way in which it is not desired.


Influence is the ability to influence the behavior of others, to change the likelihood that other people will respond in certain ways to certain stimuli.

It is a fundamental dimension of school change in general and, more specifically, a central core of most approaches to restructuring.


It refers to the use of formal and informal power by individuals and groups, in order to achieve their goals in organizations.

Decision-making consists of finding an appropriate behavior to solve a problematic situation, in which, in addition, there are a series of uncertain events.

Internal Participation is based on:


  1. Encourage students and teachers to intervene in the management of the Center through their own bodies.
    Fundamental objective: To stimulate the participation of the students.
  2. The Center will have an Internal Regime Regulation, updated and known to all.

External Participation is based on:

  1. Promote and promote collaboration with other educational and non-educational organizations and institutions in the environment.

The productive and plural condition of power interactions gives rise to conflicts as a generating source of transformation.
This process of confrontation and conflict resolution is the basis for the growth of interaction between educational actors; It is the process that is established between stability and transformation.

The Conflict is an interactive process of social construction in a closed context. It can be Positive or Negative, depending on how it is approached and ends up transformed or surpassed by the parts that modify its behavior.

Therefore, referring to conflicts is talking about the potential transformation of educational institutions, their organization and, therefore, their management.

Learners have the right to:


  1. Receive Education in Quantity and Quality.
  2. To be Respected in their Freedom of Conscience, Religious, Moral and Political Convictions within the framework of democratic coexistence.
  3. To be evaluated in their performance and achievements, in accordance with their rigorous and scientifically based criteria, at all levels, cycles and special regimes of the system, and informed about it.
  4. Receive Vocational, Academic and Professional Orientation, occupational that enables their insertion in the labor world or the pursuit of other studies.
  5. Integrate Student Centers, Associations and Clubs or other Community Organizations to participate in the operation of educational units, with progressively greater responsibility, as the levels of the system advance.
  6. Develop their learning in buildings that meet safety and health standards that have facilities and equipment that ensure the quality and efficiency of the educational service.
  7. Be covered by a Social Security System during their stay in the school establishment.

Parental:


  1. Be recognized as a natural and primary agent of education.
  2. Participate in the Activities of educational establishments.
  3. Choose for their children, or wards, the educational institution whose ideology responds to their convictions.
  4. Be informed periodically about the evolution and evaluation of the educational process of their children.
  5. Enforce the provisions of (Article 27).

Of the Teachers:


  1. Exercise their profession on the basis of respect for the freedom of teaching and the freedom of teaching.
  2. Enter the system through a competition regime that guarantees professional suitability and respect for professional concerns.
  3. Receive fair remuneration for their tasks and training.
  4. Health care and prevention of occupational diseases.

Learning to live with others is an essential purpose of education and represents one of the main challenges for today's educational systems.


It is about valuable learning in itself and essential for the construction of a more democratic, more supportive, more cohesive and more peaceful society.


Learning to live together, learning to live with others, in addition to being an essential purpose of education.


-reference: Progressive increase in the difficulties of coexistence in educational centers and, especially, in secondary education.

Coexistence in educational centers is a concern common to all members of the school community.


This problem is continuously present in conversations, in discussions, in the specialized press.


It constitutes for many people one of the most important problems that the educational system currently suffers from a global organizational approach.