Between Prometheus and Epimetheus; the role of supervision in a diverse and changing context
No matter that bibliography on the functions of educational supervision rarely forgets to mention the trilogy control-assessment-mentoring, the professional collective looks always divided between its roles as control device or as avant-garde, i.e. on its interventions ex ante and ex post. But its r...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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ADIDE Federación
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Avances en Supervisión Educativa |
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| Online Access: | https://avances.adide.org/index.php/ase/article/view/85 |
| Summary: | No matter that bibliography on the functions of educational supervision rarely forgets to mention the trilogy control-assessment-mentoring, the professional collective looks always divided between its roles as control device or as avant-garde, i.e. on its interventions ex ante and ex post. But its real role is more related to a peculiar response to the problem of the span of control in a loosely coupled system in which a professional group very jealous about its own autonomy dominates organizations. And its future, in the context of informational society, could be finally more related with a posteriori assessment and accountability than with a priori guidance and counseling; that is, it could be more Epimethean than Promethean, and for good. |
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| ISSN: | 1885-0286 1885-0286 |