El fracaso escolar en el contexto de la región Caribe colombiana. Una mirada desde el liderazgo formativo

Abstract

This article presents a critical reflection from the perspective of formative leadership presented in two thesis for the sue-caribe1  Masters in Education at Universidad del Magdalena, called "Formative leadership and sustainable development in education quality. A case study in María Auxiliadora School in Santa Marta" (Mármol and Rodríguez Akle, 2008) and "School and family, a reciprocal commitment in Santa Rosa de Lima School in the borough of La China-Chibolo. An ethnographic case study" (González Monroy, 2008).
The before mentioned point of view allows us to understand school failure, approached from the student's expectations, in their natural and socio-cultural. We deconstruct this issue considering the human dimension, in the context of the region of the Colombian Caribbean, that presents has its own characteristics and invites us to make a complex and complete analysis, paying attention to biodiversity in order to build relevant alternatives that involve every social sector, aiming at overcoming the backwardness of the region by having a new vision in leadership and organization that can articulate Colombia in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean Sea. In order to achieve this goal, we briefly present two case studies of two different schools: one rural and one urban. In these case studies we can see the contrast entailed by uneven development in these two contexts. This forces an urgent call on the communities to proactively take part in the promotion of regional development, adopting as a transverse axis an improvement in education quality as quality of life. The reflections presented in this paper go beyond a mere reduction of the school failure issue into a statistic report that forgets the qualitative nature of the problem, for we understand that changes come from acknowledging and recovering the voices of those who require spaces and mediation in order to be motivated to stay in school.