SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND 'INDEPENDENCE
S' these days, the debate on the role of School Leadership in the school system in the country. A complex debate, especially in light of the recent ministerial action (see cutbacks in schools), taken by the Ministry in respect of educational institutions autonome.E 'clear that the revival of' school autonomy can not be done cost-free, nor can always call into question the 'work of headmasters who are better-or should-deal with all emergencies, including that the increase in pupils italofoni.E not' true that the school can find resources from within, but are always limited in front of the 'extent of complexity to deal with.
In this direction, a Director in charge of organizing a learning environment, can raise from within the discourse on the autonomy of the school and respond to different challenges at the same time (ICT, integration, e-Learning, Lisbon 2010 ) that the country puts more and more urgently for a school open, inclusive, united, pluralist and democratic with the fundamental goal of ensuring educational success for all pupils, educational success to be understood according to the wording of Article. 3 of the Constitution: "The job of the Republic to remove obstacles to economic and social nature which constrain the freedom and equality citizens, prevent the development plan of the human person and the effective participation of all workers in the political, economic and social development of the country. "
Everyone should be assured the right to education than ever as today is the challenge on which we measure competencies and skills of all school stakeholders and, primarily, of the School Director.
are challenges that require the issue of governance, namely the horizontal forms of self-responsibility, social reporting in which each school Italian, as is the case for decades in the schools of European countries in which we conducted our activities Professional (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland), can not escape, because we believe that we need just to avoid the risks of not more than sufferable
self, too much planning, the emphasis on curriculum rather than adding a certain widespread underestimation of evaluation practices in the school and the school. In this sense, is directed in the first part of this volume the invitation of the Rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena, prof. Massimo Vedovelli and thank him for having followed this research on aspects of school management in Italy and the need to revive the culture of autonomy and opportunities for renewal the school system. To support this must surely "give information about educational institutions and submit their most significant experiences, being able to refer to the skills and personal commitment, as well as management of the school to see that leadership into the joint between the school and the opportunities - not only eisgenze - of its territory in which to implement that profile of school autonomy "to which these pages devoted attention, critical analysis and specific proposals."
As demonstrated in the final part of this research, the autonomy of the Italian school must be defended and supported mainly by the school staff, by the assistant to the Executive, because it means defending and enhancing the quality of the school and the function of its "social mandate" that no minister, no reform of the law no decree can defend.
p.8-9-Victor Gazerro
from the book "School Leadership : shared responsibility and autonomy "
Challenges for Italian schools. Series "The meaning of the language," War editions
Perugia, 2009, p. 236
