Organizational Scripts and Educational Leadership
Andrea Bobbio
The article deals with the possible applications of Transactional Analysis — and its declination within the extra-clinical «special fields» — in the sphere of organisational analysis in school contexts with particular reference to the function of the school manager as an actor of profound transformation and change of the paradigms that orient the practices and the «moral climate» of the institution. Starting from the concept of «organisational script», the phenomena of resistance to change typical of the collegiate contexts of the school world will be analysed, proposing specific hermeneutic categories useful for understanding the defence mechanisms and dynamics that mark the functioning of groups. The four scripts identified aim to encompass the basic behaviours of organisations by relating them to the valorisation, strategic or otherwise, of the resources, time and human skills available to the institution. This task, in particular, concerns the school manager who is called upon to combine, through his or her educational leadership, instances of a different nature: the need for stability and change; individual and collective needs; creative instances and others of regulation. The proposed analysis, in addition to valorising the research elaborated in the A.T. context, is linked to the studies proposed in the American context by Sergiovanni and, in Italy, by Scurati.
Keywords
Head teacher, Leadership, Organisational script, Organisation pedagogy, School pedagogy.
