The Experience of Directors in Virus Times: a Report to Build what Follows

Abstract

In this article we describe the organizational work forms established between directors and other educational agents, identify the predominant management styles in remote education, and finally analyze the forms of communication in the educational context that emerged in the pandemic.
The analyzed material comprises a corpus surveyed by a self-generated non-probabilistic sample from an open call to directors of initial, primary, and secondary schools of the General Department of San Martín and Río Segundo from the province of Córdoba. Forty-two surveys were collected; twenty were answered by directors at the primary level, thirteen at the secondary level, eight at the initial level and one without reference. Of the total, 92.9 % of those surveyed direct public management institutions and 7.1 % private management.
As a result, the main changes in work forms were given in the sphere of institutional government and the relational system. The predominant management style identified in the remote education context was the one which considers management as government. In the analysis of the forms of communication, it was possible to detect the emergence of new forms and the incorporation of devices unaffiliated to the educational dynamics.