Pedagogical leadership of the educational psychologist: a competence to be trained for professional performance

Abstract

The training of professionals in Cuba demands new challenges, behaviors and renewing attitudes to face the changes and transformations that occur from the technological, economic and social point of view; for this it is necessary to stimulate leadership and, in turn, that this becomes a professional quality. In the specific case of students of the Pedagogy-Psychology career who have specific functions such as educational guidance and counseling to managers, they need to be trained with skills to manage social relations from their ability to unify criteria, develop collaborative work and be an enterprising protagonist as an essential feature of an educational leader. Hence, the objective of this article is aimed at offering methodological procedures to develop pedagogical leadership in the educational psychologist as a necessary competence for efficient professional performance. For this purpose, an analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and review of the theory on the subject was carried out as a starting point for the proposal. The development of pedagogical leadership in the training process of the educational psychologist as a professional competence provides the student with better conditions for the management of his/her relationships in the different contexts of action, which contributes to the educational change demanded by today's society.