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Humanidades Médicas
On-line version ISSN 1727-8120
Abstract
FIGUEROA SOLEDISPA, Martha Lorena and MACHADO RAMIREZ, Evelio Felipe. The bettering process in teaching leadership and the transformation of university processes. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.3, pp. 391-408. ISSN 1727-8120.
Quality higher education institutions have the characteristic to develop a pedagogy of change. Since 1999, the Education Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean established a program of the educative leadership net, in order to create a critical group of professionals of the educative system, pioneers in transformational leadership. One of the main purposes of the following article is to assess contemporary trends of the bettering processes in teaching leadership in Latin America, as well as, the main models and theories. The different types of leadership are estimated and also their importance for the development of a transformer role of the teaching personnel in higher education.
Keywords : leadership; inservice training; professional competence.