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Professional appointment: Assistant Professor and researcher at the School of Education of Austral University in Argentina.
Professional profile: Teacher with 28 years of uninterrupted experience and a university professor since 2013, specializing in school organization and management, leadership, and school improvement. He currently teaches in the Master's program in Educational Leadership and in the Bachelor's program in Educational Organization and Management at Universidad Austral. He supervises and serves on evaluation committees for undergraduate and postgraduate theses and collaborates with the Master's program in School Leadership at Universidad Villanueva in Madrid.
He previously served as Supervisor of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education of the Province of Santa Fe, where he oversaw the implementation of policies and advised school principals. For more than ten years he worked as principal of a higher education college and was also involved as a consultant in the development of educational projects within the Consultorio Emprendedor Program of the Ministry of Economic Development and Production of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
His mission as a professor, researcher, and practitioner is to drive improvements in education by studying leadership practices and helping schools transform into learning communities in times of growing complexity and uncertainty.
Areas of scholarship: school leadership practices to promote and sustain changes in the grammar of schooling, development of professional learning communities.
Teaching foci: school leadership, teacher leadership, grammar of schooling, educational change, professional learning communities.
Selected publications:
Vivas, P. L. (2025). Transformar la escuela secundaria para asegurar trayectorias educativas completas: un aporte desde el liderazgo escolar. En M. Torrado Fonseca y J. Llanes Ordoñez (eds), IV Encuentro Internacional de Doctorandos/as e Investigadores/as noveles AIDIPE 2024: Investigación educativa e innovación ante los retos de la sostenibilidad (p. 330-335). Asociación Interuniversitaria de Investigación pedagógica. https://hdl.handle.net/2445/218438
Vivas, P. L. (2024). Prácticas de liderazgo para promover y sostener cambios en la matriz tradicional de la Educación Secundaria. Un estudio de casos [Tesis doctoral, Universitat de Barcelona]. Depósito digital Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa. https://hdl.handle.net/2445/217961
Vivas, P. L. y Gratacós, G. (2023). Teacher Leadership and School Improvement in Argentina: Why Is It Difficult… Why Is It Urgent? En: C. F. Webber (eds), Teacher Leadership in International Contexts (p. 251-271). Studies in Educational Leadership, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25763-6_10
Rotondo, A. & Vivas, P. L. (2019). Aprendizaje Enfocado en el Estudiante. Krínein. Revista de Educación, 17, 253-282.
Degrees:
PhD in Education and Society (Cum Laude), Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
Ed in Higher Education, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
MEd in Educational Management and Leadership, Universidad Villanueva, Spain
BA in Educational Management, Universidad del Salvador, Argentina.
Email address: PVivas-ext@austral.edu.ar
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7016-8229
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