Globalization, digitalization, and the permanent alteration of information have led to important changes in the world of work. This demands a realignment of essential skills in order to access job positions in the coming years. In order to face up to the digitalization process, education is one of the ambits that has most come to a tipping point. This adds an urgency to the need to bring skills in line with the new demands of the job market and the challenges posed in the 21st Century. The methodology was based on a systematic review of the most commonly-used databases. It analyzed and synthesized the existing information on the skills required for the future job market and educational proposals to facilitate their acquisition. At the beginning of the search, 2045 records were selected. However, following the application of the exclusion criteria, a total of 63 records were included. From this in-depth analysis, it was uncovered that the most in-demand skill for the job market relates to the management of technology. Different proposals were located which targeted these skills in educational settings. The majority of these pertained to innovative projects emanating from digital and technological phenomena.

School burnout constitutes a current phenomenon which generates diverse negative consequences in the personal and academic lives of students. Given this situation, it is necessary to develop actions that permit us to regulate this harmful mental state and that are administered from within the school context. A descriptive and cross-sectional study is presented that pursues the objective of examining a structural equation model which brings together burnout and emotional regulation. The model assumes that students receive tutoring at school in order to tackle these types of problems. For this, the sample constituted a total of 569 students from the province of Granada (men = 52.3% (n = 298); women = 47.7% (n = 271)). Mean age was reported as 10.39 ± 0.95 years and the School Burnout Inventory (BMI) and the Emotional Regulation Scale were utilized as the principal instruments. As main findings it was observed that students who received one hour of weekly tutoring showed a positive relationship between expressive suppression as a strategy of emotional regulation, cynicism, and exhaustion as consequences of school burnout. In the same way, a direct association existed between burnout-related exhaustion and cognitive repair. Given that significant relationships could not be observed between these variables in students who do not receive tutoring, higher use of emotional regulation was confirmed amongst tutored students when faced with this negative mental state.

Spain is one of the countries with the greatest influx of immigrants and, specifically, of unaccompanied foreign minors (UFMs). The educational and social inclusion of unaccompanied foreign minors poses both a challenge and a threat to current policy. Nonetheless, studies linking educational aspects to the phenomenon of the integration of these children are scarce and do not specify the most influential educational tools and strategies. In this sense, a descriptive, quantitative and cross-sectional research study is presented. The aim of this study is to examine whether variables such as age and the use of applications and social networks determine the personal learning environments (PLE) of unaccompanied foreign minors. The sample of the present study was formed by 624 individuals (♂ = 92.1% (n = 575); ♀ = 7.9% (n = 49)) aged between 8 and 17 years old. The majority came from Morocco and resided in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla. The “PLE and Social Integration of UFMs” questionnaire was used as the study instrument. Amongst the main findings, significant differences are highlighted in the personal learning environments as a function of age-related psychosocial factors as they pertain to unaccompanied foreign minors. Four factors were seen to exist in relation to the personal learning environments of unaccompanied foreign minors: self-concept of the learning process, planning and management of learning, use of resources and tools, and communication and social interaction. The same trend was observed in the four factors, with older age groups reporting better scores. On the other hand, results show that the use of applications and social networks have a significant and favourable impact on personal learning environment construction.

Este trabajo presenta, en primer lugar, la adaptación y validación al español del Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED), uno de los más relevantes instrumentos para evaluar el liderazgo pedagógico de la dirección escolar. En segundo lugar, se presentan los resultados obtenidos para tres de las categorías del cuestionario, relacionadas con cultura de aprendizaje, calidad de la enseñanza e implicación de la comunidad. Nuestra investigación ha constatado los graves déficits que en el conjunto de las tres dimensiones analizadas, por su interrelación, tienen los centros de Secundaria, y la escasa capacidad y competencia de la dirección escolar para configurar la escuela como una comunidad de aprendizaje centrada en el aprendizaje de los alumnos. Entre una cierta conformidad con el status quo actual, y los déficits detectados en estas dimensiones, se señalan líneas de acción para la mejora escolar.

This article is part of the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP) and aims to analyse the success factors of two Spanish secondary school principals working in the line of social justice in challenging contexts. The factors are arranged in traits and beliefs of principals and in the strategies they used to bring successful leadership. The article concludes by showing a model of leadership that emphasizes both personal and professional characteristics of principals and their central role as agents of social change.

La investigación educativa internacional ha constatado que el liderazgo pedagógico de la dirección es un elemento clave para la mejora de la calidad de las escuelas. Partiendo de esta evidencia, se presenta una investigación que tiene como objetivo conocer las prácticas eficaces de liderazgo educativo que desarrolla la dirección escolar en los ceips públicos andaluces, respecto al apoyo a la calidad docente. Para alcanzar este objetivo se ha optado por una metodología cuantitativa, que emplea como procedimiento la encuesta y un cuestionario. La población de esta investigación son los docentes y los equipos directivos de los centros de Educación Infantil y Primaria públicos de Andalucía. Los resultados obtenidos permiten afirmar que la dirección de los ceips públicos andaluces desarrolla en un grado elevado las diferentes prácticas dirigidas a apoyar la calidad del trabajo de los docentes, a excepción de aquellas relacionadas con labores de supervisión a nivel de aula, de revisión de programaciones y de concesión de incentivos por un trabajo eficaz. Sin embargo, esta población considera relevante y deseable que este conjunto de prácticas se lleve a cabo. Comparando la opinión de las dos poblaciones participantes en la investigación, puede concluirse que la percepción de lo que ocurre en la escuela con respecto a estas prácticas de liderazgo y la percepción de deseabilidad es significativamente superior en los miembros de equipos directivos en el contexto de la investigación.