PEI as ideological support of the ecuadorian educational revolution

Abstract

The Institutional Educational Project, is a public document of strategic planning, which lasts for 4 years and is permanently built, it parts from a point in time, begins with the self-assessment and analyzes 5 fields of management, administrative, pedagogical, coexistence, educational services and comprehensive school risk management system. It has three fields that determine the institutional identity, vision, mission and ideology. The authors identified the problem, for that reason this research was carried out, the educational systems are in recurrent crisis and need to be permanently transformed, this is made from the central levels, but there is a public document relating between the upper level and the educational center, the PEI, which needs to be impregnated with the elements capable of transforming education. The descriptive methodology allowed to analyze the vision, mission and ideology of 14 educational centers, it was concluded that these are built considering three predominant approaches: internal, external and the internal-external combined. And it is necessary, the construction of the vision, mission and ideology with balance locating and developing the ideas strength for each of the following elements: teacher, student, model, value and the standard. This study finishes with the presentation of a non-exhaustive basic proposal, as a tool for the construction of the PEI supporting the Ecuadorian educational revolution. Strategic planning is not exclusive of the educational centers, because through the Pluriannual Plan of Public Policies (PPPP) and the Plan of Institutional Development (PEDI), the institutions of the Level of Higher Education articulate their advances and scopes.