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La autonomía escolar en Europa: aportaciones para la innovación educativa

Publicated to:Revista Española De Educación Comparada. (41): 10-27 - 2022-07-01 (41), DOI: 10.5944/reec.41.2022.32391

Authors: Ortega-Rodriguez, Pablo Javier

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Abstract

School autonomy is a key factor in promoting innovation processes in schools. Its development in European countries has changed according to the educational policy, which requires a specific study on the contributions to the field of educational theory and practice. The objective of this study is to know the effect of school autonomy on educational innovation based on an argumentative critique of the progress in European countries with different innovation experience: Germany, Belgium, Spain, Finland, France, and United Kingdom. The relevance of school autonomy in the current educational scene is justified to promote the internal development capacity of schools and offer an adaptive and personalized response to meet the students' needs. The meaning of the school autonomy and its implementation in teaching practice are defined. More decision-making is granted to foster innovation in schools, as well as more control in the evaluation of results. In Spain, advances have been made at the methodological level, not on the content election. Finland has a great curricular autonomy, unlike France, which has a centralist tradition, and the United Kingdom, which seeks efficiency in school rankings. Results suggest the need to fill the gap between the theoretical basis of autonomy and its implementation in the teaching practice and manage school autonomy to promote innovation processes.

Keywords

Comparative educationEducational innovationFinlandGovernanceImprovementInternational educationLeadershipLearningSchool autonomyTeaching practice

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Revista Española De Educación Comparada due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Philosophy.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.76, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jun 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-06, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-06:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 31.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 50 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.35.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Additionally, the work has been submitted to a journal classified as Diamond in relation to this type of editorial policy.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (ORTEGA RODRIGUEZ, PABLO JAVIER) and Last Author (ORTEGA RODRIGUEZ, PABLO JAVIER).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been ORTEGA RODRIGUEZ, PABLO JAVIER.