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Dixit

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SILVA, Patricia; DODEL SCHUBERT, Matías  and  PEPE, Ana Inés. Between the communication notebook and the smartphone. The challenges for the management in Uruguayan educational centers in the context of digital communication. Dixit [online]. 2020, n.32, pp.61-75.  Epub June 01, 2020. ISSN 1688-3497.  https://doi.org/10.22235/d.vi32.2118.

This article assesses how schools manage their communication with students' families. Schools face a challenge that combines the massive use of digital communication by families, considerable socioeconomic variance in their educational contexts, and a diversity of organizational policies and leadership styles. Based on a case study of a network of twelve private schools in Montevideo, we conducted semi-structured interviews with principals and teachers. Our findings indicate that, despite the massification of digital devices, principals and teachers continue to express preferences for traditional non-digital channels of communication, for the majority of school-related topics. Even without an explicit rejection of digital technologies, respondents manifest diverse barriers that prevent their implementation. Recommendations are provided for rethinking communication based on organizational strategies

Keywords : digital communication; communication skills; school; leadership; social inequality.

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