Educational Management and Leadership: An Integrating Perspective in the Knowledge Economy

This paper reviews the major paradigms and approaches used to study the impact of management and leadership styles on student learning outputs and the effectiveness of educational organizations. For this purpose, a bibliographical review was made that analyzes the foundational works for each of the current paradigms. The article concludes by establishing a number of key issues in conceptual and methodological areas that should be considered when conducting studies in the field of management and educational leadership. Finally, a proposal is made that constitutes an integrating vision of the paradigms of organizational ecology, the upper echelons theory, the paradigm of school effectiveness and the micropolitical approach.