Research trends on leadership and school management. Systematic review of scientific production

The school management and leadership field, in addition to generating new knowledge, creates new spaces for reflection around these issues and the educational context. Therefore, the work presented seeks to answer this research question: What are the trends in scientific production around school leadership and management? The objectives of the study are, on the one hand, to describe the scientific production on these topics and, on the other, to analyze their trends. A quantitative methodology was followed, systematizing the process based on the verification guidelines of the PRISMA 2020 statement for the work with the bibliographic material identified in the Scopus database; as well as other qualitative one for a subsequent descriptive documentary analysis of the results obtained. Regarding the findings, in the foreground, it is identified that the countries with the highest Spanish-speaking scientific productivity around these issues are, firstly, Spain and, secondly, Chile. Also, the research trend around school leadership and direction is fundamentally oriented to recording the experience, meaning and the actor's perception, which is why the qualitative approach primarily characterizes this type of study. Likewise it is also underlined the need to continue advancing in the construction of the field of leadership and school management based on theoretical constructs that connect the experience of reality.