THE CURRENT EDUCATIONAL INSPECTION IN AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES IN SPAIN: A COMPARATIVE VIEW

Abstract

The educational inspection has its starting point in article 27.8 of the Spanish Constitution and in the Education Law, currently the LOE, modified by the LOMLOE. However, each of the autonomous communities has specific legislation to regulate the inspection function in their respective territorial area. In the normative elements that regulate the organization and operation of the educational inspection in the autonomous communities, variations of some importance can be found, which are useful to understand the differences in the way in which the tasks of educational inspection are carried out. For this reason, this review of the regional legislation regarding educational inspection has been prepared. The aspects that have been evaluated include some of the most interesting among those that orbit the work of the educational inspectorate, from the very functions and attributions of the educational inspectors to aspects of the organizational structure of the Inspection in each of the autonomous communities. The final objective of this review is to present a general overview of the educational inspection in Spain to be able to make a comparison of the aforementioned aspects, related to the organization and operation of the Inspectorate.

This text has been based on a previous investigation of the theoretical framework carried out within the framework of the unpublished thesis entitled Analysis of the profession of education inspector and the inspection model, read at the University of La Laguna in 2022.