Commentary - System thinking, school leadership and complexities in Latin America

What is it about?

School leaders in Latin America must take on challenges that make their work even more complex, and that are too often not recognized by predominantly Anglo-Saxon biased studies in this field.Duties such as mediating between the school and a conflictive social environment, safeguarding the unity of the school community in the face of social and political movements, taking part as an active agent in the local educational market, or seeking to reconcile education policies poorly suited to the reality of the school, are some of the tasks that many school leaders must fulfil in this part of the world. School leadership is more burdened now than ever to become ‘masters of complexity’. Therefore, a vision neither linear non simplistic including both the complexity and multidimensional aspects of schools provided by the system thinking approach, opens up an opportunity to successfully gain a better understanding of school leadership in Latin America.

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