RT Journal Article
T1 Inclusive Leadership: Good Managerial Practices to Address Cultural Diversity in Schools
A1 Gómez Hurtado, Inmaculada
A1 Valdés Morales, René
A1 González Falcón, Inmaculada
A1 Jiménez Vargas, Felipe
AB Educational inclusion of foreign pupils has become a priority objective in recent years in many countries worldwide. Attending to the cultural diversity of pupils and providing an inclusive educational response is now a main goal of education systems. In this context, educational leadership is a key factor for school improvement. Management teams face the difficult mission of responding to the diversity of people that make up the educational community in a scenario marked by the expansive increase in migrant families and the scarcity of inclusive and intercultural government programmes. This article explores good management practices for cultural diversity management in six early childhood and primary education centres in Spain and Chile from an inclusive leadership approach. Factors that influence the development of inclusive leadership and the process deployed to carry out diversity management are examined. Through a qualitative methodology, six case studies were carried out using the interview, participant observation, and document analysis as instruments. The main outcomes show the importance of leaders in promoting an inclusive collaborative culture, in classroom practices focused on the knowledge and cultural capital of foreign pupils, the development of organisational and didactic strategies based on the recognition and participation of the educational community, its commitment to social justice, a management of diversity based on collaboration, and a shared concept of educational inclusion. The conclusions show four common dimensions in the good practices of each country: professional development of the community, school participation, inclusive school culture, and positive management of diversity.
PB Cogitatio Press
SN 2183-2803 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20617
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20617
LA eng
NO Gómez-Hurtado, I., Valdés, R., González-Falcón, I., & Jiménez Vargas, F. (2021). Inclusive Leadership: Good Managerial Practices to Address Cultural Diversity in Schools. In Social Inclusion (Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 69–80). Cogitatio. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i4.4611
NO We are deeply grateful to the editors and unknownreviewers of this article for the valuable comments wereceived for writing this article. We would also like tothank the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competit‐iveness (project CSO2013–43266‐R “Construyendo difer‐encias en la escuela. Estudios de las trayectorias de lasATAL en Andalucía, de su profesorado y de su alum‐nado”) who supported the research and the NationalResearch and Development Agency (ANID) throughthe National Scientific and Technological ResearchCommission (CONICYT; Fondecyt projects 1190349 and3200192). This article was translated by Neil MacowanLanguage Services.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026