Gestión de los Centros Educativos de Educación Primaria, Tipo Dirección Uno, Circuito 06 Katira, Dirección Regional de Educación Zona Norte Norte
An management assessment was made of  3 Mode 1 public high schools belonging to the Northern Educational Region Circuit 6 in the Northern Region of Costa Rica in 2013. The general objectives were to assess and propose enhancements to management activities for the high schools participating in the study. The objectives specifically include: 1 – Acknowledging strengths and weaknesses in the schools´curriculum, teaching staff, financial limitations, educational resources and procedures.  2 – Determine the principal management strategies embraced by principals in teh aforementioned instittutions. The study is qualitative.  Findings include: principals overloaded with work, decontexualized content, general lack of motivation among teachers in the workplace and lack of adequate classrooms to provide a quality education
Desafíos del sistema educativo costarricense:un nuevo paradigma de la administraciónde la educación
La autora y el autor realizan una contextualizacion teorico-practica sobre la que actua la educacion, y desde ella el papel que asume la administracion de la educacion como disciplina responsable de la gestion de las organizaciones educativas. Se parte de los diferentes desafios que presenta la educacion en el sistema educativo costarricense y las posibles tendencias epistemologicas de la administracion de la educacion, como condicion para responder a estos desafios de manera acertada.
The qualitative research interview
Background  Interviews are among the most familiar strategies for collecting qualitative data. The different qualitative interviewing strategies in common use emerged from diverse disciplinary perspectives resulting in a wide variation among interviewing approaches. Unlike the highly structured survey interviews and questionnaires used in epidemiology and most health services research, we examine less structured interview strategies in which the person interviewed is more a participant in meaning making than a conduit from which information is retrieved.