Liderança da escola e aprendizagem dos alunos: um estudo de caso numa escola secundária

Abstract

This article focuses on the relationship between school leadership and student attainment. The main research question that the study sought to answer was: does school leadership have an impact on students’academic learning and, in affirmative case, how does this impact take place? To clarify this issue, we conducted a qualitative case study of a public Portuguese secondary school. The results seem to converge with various assumptions of Leithwood et al’s (2004, 2006) and Day et al’s (2009) leadership practice models. According to participants’testimonies, and in spite of the obvious limitations of a school located in a rural context, students’school results seemed to be, both directly and indirectly, associated with the leadership practices developed by the school director.