The construction of the role of School Head in the local regulation of educational public policies

In this article, we deal with the school head as an object of educational policies within the context of changes occurring in the field of the regulation of public policies and State’s regulation modes. These changes are connected to changes in school organization and management and, therefore, in the work of heads. From our point of view, changes in management enable us to understand the new modes of regulation. In this way, the analysis of changes in the processes of regulation of educational policies may be carried out via analysis of the changes in the interpretative schemes and guidelines for the heads’ actions, which constitute elements of interpretation of such modes of regulation. The study project presented here analyses the school head as the object of the policy and public action starting with the question: “What are the roles of school heads and how are they constructed within the local regulation of educational public policies?”. Therefore, we will examine different sources and tools for such a construction so as to describe and analyse both the referentials of head and of regulation of the public action, and the knowledge mobilized in this process.