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RODRIGUEZ DE TORREALBA, Ángela. Towards a prospective vision of educational management and supervision. Investigación y Postgrado [online]. 2008, vol.23, n.2, pp.447-461. ISSN 1316-0087.

The purpose of this research was to examine the vision basic education supervisors have about the management function. The study analyses, from an hermeneutic approach, several national data sources official (government) sources between 1980 and 1990. The evaluation of the results produced the following conclusions: 1) the supervisor must elaborate a working plan according to the established objectives of the educational action and posses a solid integral preparation, creative and critical capacity, leadership, good social skills, in order to create an harmonic working environment that will contribute to the personal development of the academic staff; 2) the supervision function, understood as controlling and inspection process, requires a constant revision in order to be adapted to current conceptions determined by the interaction of the social and education dynamic and the challenges posed by the historical moment, in other words, supervision seen from an holistic and integral perspective that fuses the individual, the institution and the society; and, 3) the supervision action exercised by the educational management must be redesign because the basic education teacher (specially) must change from object to subject, actively included into the transformational and evolutional process of humans and societies.

Palavras-chave : educational management; educational supervision; organizational management; basic education.