Leading Inclusive Schools

Abstract

The aim of the chapter is to learn how the management team promotes openness to the community and collaboration to develop an inclusive culture. This study is framed within the R+D+I project “School Management Leadership and Its Contribution to Improving Inclusion in Compulsory Education.” In a mixed research approach, the project develops and implements a tool for the evaluation of inclusive education in schools through participatory methodologies. In this chapter, the authors discuss the different ways of understanding inclusive leadership and the main elements intertwined in it, focusing later on the participation of management teams as catalysts of the educational community for the development of inclusive practices in schools. To this end, from the teachers' perspectives, they analysed the data gathered through the LEI-Q-Profesorado questionnaire. The main outcomes and conclusions indicate that the teaching staff of the schools surveyed have a positive perception of the actions taken by the management teams in the exercise of their inclusive leadership.