
teachers, students and the family (Hernández, 2020); in the case of managers it is
expected that they adapt a new way of managing school policy (Fotheringham, et al.,
2020); on the part of teachers, a new pedagogical model that responds to social
distancing measures (Oña-Simbañal, 2020; López, 2020); and in the case of parents
and students, the development of values and skills that allow them to rebuild post-
pandemic coexistence levels (Serey and Zúñiga, 2020). At a more global level, the
negative impact of the pandemic on education systems has been evidenced (Sterzer,
2020), widening social gaps (Bonilla, 2020).
Regarding the objectives set out in the studies analyzed, it has been observed that they
all focus in some way on leadership (Fotheringham, et al., 2020) or educational
management (Hernández, 2020; Oña-Simbañal, 2020) in the Covid-2019 scenario.
These are oriented to identify the best leadership practices to face unpredictable
challenges (Fernández and Shaw, 2020;), the most mentioned being adaptive
leadership (James, 2020) and resilient leadership (Bonilla, 2020); they also propose
to study teaching processes (Sterzer, 2020), new pedagogical models (López, 2020),
post-pandemic coexistence (Serey and Zúñiga, 2020) and capacities to transform the
school in the face of social distancing (Villa, 2020).
Regarding the theories addressed, the most frequent is related to leadership, since
Kerr & Jermier's (1978) theory of distributed leadership is mentioned as the one that
provides the best results when going through times of crisis such as the current
pandemic; since it promotes collaboration and shared and decentralized
responsibilities. Heifetz's (1994) theory of adaptive leadership has also been
mentioned as it provides capabilities to mobilize, motivate, organize, orient and focus
the attention of others and to focus them adaptively towards the same horizon. Various
theories have also been addressed to explain school management in environments of
change, indicating that in this scenario it is important to configure power (Foucault
and Morris, 1979), negotiation, problem solving and anticipation (Braslavsky and
Acosta, 2001) and leadership (Murphy and Torre, 2014) to achieve favorable results
for the school by pertinently considering the context (Jackson and Andrews, 2000)
and the educational system in place (Tam and El-Azar, 2020). It has also been exposed
that school culture can become a protective factor in the face of crisis scenarios since
they are characterized by a set of shared beliefs and values (Elías, 2015) that can