Confidence: fundamental element in the relations between teachers and managers

Abstract

This article bears of the carried research about confidence between teachers and principals at the Educational Institution San Francisco District (Bogotá, Colombia.) Confidence is considered as a factor that impacts in the consolidation of the school culture and in the achievement of institutional objective since it turns as a mediating element of human relations, conceiving it like the basis of social relations.

The research developed an exercise of intervention in which quantitative tools allowed the description of levels of confidence in the relations between teachers and principals. From there, a qualitative analysis was carried in order to observe the connection in the academic and harmonic processes of the institution. The obtained results permit the formulation of pedagogical and organizational strategies increasing the levels of confidence, the improvement of educational quality, and the consolidation of a school culture

Conocimiento Educactivo, Vol. 4, 2017: 39-55