THE INFLUENCE OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON CHANGES IN THE ROLES OF SCHOOL MANAGERS IN REGIONAL EDUCATION

The study examines the content of the roles of managers in regional education and the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on changes in these roles. The respondents of the research survey, the methodology of which is presented in the introductory part of the study, were managers and other employees of regional education in various roles of actors in the educational process. The investigation took place within the framework of qualitative research design. The aim of the survey was to update the contents of key roles of managers in regional education and to determine whether the COVID-19 pandemic also changed the importance that respondents attribute to certain types of roles or partial activities of managers in regional education. In the theoretically conceived chapter 1, selected concepts of the roles of managers, known in the domestic context in theories of management and school management, are first introduced. Chapter 1 also specifies the content of the roles of manager for the model created by Plamínek & Fišer (2005), as they were presented in the works of theorists of management. The mentioned model was also used for data collection within the research survey. This means for determining the specific content of these roles and any changes in their meaning that occurred during the period under review. The influence in the period from March 2020 to January 2021 was reflected. The obtained information is presented and the results of the survey are interpreted in chapter 2 of the paper and in its final part. Here, the text deals with changes in the content and importance of such defined sub-roles mentioned by the informants and relevant for the period of changes that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the segments of regional education. The basic method of the research survey was an analysis of written records of the roles of school leaders (principals) prepared by individual respondents. Questioning and the study of documents in the preparatory phase of the research survey were used as an additional methods.