Abstract:
This bibliographic research studies the role of the school manager in dealing with their daily, pedagogical and administrative work. It is described here how the proper incorporation of ethics in school management, instigating values and principles, can contribute to the formation of a school that aims to improve the teaching-learning process, making it more citizen formation. The actions of the manager are directly associated with ethical decisions, they are steel that make a difference in the learning of students. The school management collaborates with the full citizen, autonomous and ethical formation of the human being. This paper intends to reflect on the role of the school manager in the construction of a space of continuous education that promotes the valorization and maintenance of the citizenship conscience, having as one of the driving actions the determinations of the management based on ethics. The view of the authors surveyed, starts from the principle that school management should be based on participation, involving the entire school community, thus providing a democratic and political experience in the education space, strengthening citizenship and fulfilling the social function of the school. The school is a space for the promotion of partnerships between the managers, the students, the family and the surrounding community, which, based on ethically oriented actions, seeks to build a just reality. Therefore, this work verifies which paths management can and should take to favor the experience of meaningful, humane learning and integral formation.