The ELO Project - Educational Leadeship Observatory

Abstract

In spite of the great importance that is given to school leadership as a relevant factor in school improvement and of the increasing number of studies that are being developed in this area in several countries, in Portugal only recently did we begin to have studies that are focused directly in this issue.

Perhaps due to the slow development of this area of research in Portugal, there is still no gathering and conceptual systemization of the research that has been done on school leadership in our country. Thus, one of the main goals of the project that we are presenting is the creation of a School Leadership Observatory, gathering and making available information and research work on school leadership that have been recently carried out in Portugal. We have specifically focused on PhD thesis, Master dissertations, articles in scientific journals and proceedings of scientific meetings. This information that is being collected will be analyzed according to a theoretic-conceptual framework that will allow drawing a portrait of the results, perspectives and tendencies of this kind of research in our country.