Los grupos informales en las organizaciones escolares: un acercamiento desde la gestión educativa

This paper aims to characterize the informal groups existing in public school institutions in the district of Santa Marta, as well as to unveil the factors which cause such groups and their influences on educational quality. Hence, it prioritizes a methodology of an ethnographic approach, based on the perspective of complementarity, which uses instruments such as: documentary analysis, field diaries, participant observation and in-depth interviews to understand the social reality of educational organizations. In the preliminary findings, several informal groups are evidenced within the legal structures, which are produced by factors such as common interests, friendship, ideological positions and sports and cultural practices. The main conclusion of this paper shows the possible relations between the existence of the groups and educational quality.