Educational science management as an agent of change for educational institutions

Introduction: The various problems that are manifested in the current educational context demand an "educational change", a reality that increases the strategic nature of educational scientific management as a concept that is relevant to the social sciences and education; Objective: To analyze the challenges faced by educational scientific management and its incidence in promoting "educational change"; Reflection: Educational scientific management presents scopes and challenges in terms of building a more just and educated school, based on the predominance of human values and thus foreseeing, promoting and valuing educational change in all its significance and transcendence. The management relationships sustained at the different levels of the educational institution must be characterized by adequate mechanisms of communication and participation in decision making, which increases confidence in management, recognizing the limitations and tensions that emanate from a dynamic and complex educational environment; Conclusions: Educational change, which implies the need for a transformation of the forms and contents that are developed in modern educational institutions, is a process consubstantial to educational scientific management and, consequently, has to be visualized, understood and promoted by all its protagonists.