Reflections on the antinomies of Educational Inspection in Spain. An unresolved problem

• Main Author: Santiago Esteban Frades
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: ADIDE Federación 2007-06-01
• Series: Avances en Supervisión Educativa
• Online Access: https://avances.adide.org/index.php/ase/article/view/273

The Education Inspectorate has historically suffered stages of inadequate definition which have led to several contradictions, the most important of which are the following ones: a twofold organization -High Education Inspectorate and Education Inspectorate-, the official dependence -an Administration body of civil servants or a Teaching body of civil servants-, an internal organization based on specific educational levels or a multi-level one-, semi-professional or professional enrolment, duties of control vs. advisory duties, pedagogical leadership or bureaucratic performance, and finally lack of definition, conflict and ambiguous duties. Probably due to a minor influence of political ideologies, some other Inspectorates have succeeded in undertaking a transformation from the non-democratic model of the 1960s to a model in accordance with the Spanish Constitution, which conceives supervision as integrated in the whole institutional system, under the Spanish Constitution.