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The purpose of this research was to explore and document which educational leadership, administrative and professional development processes occur, in order to describe the community of learners. This study was framed in the Critical Administration Dialectic Paradigm (Rodríguez Matos, 2001), the literature on the mission of the University in the XXI century, the administrative and professional development leadership, and the community of learners. The research design was critical ethnographic. Qualitative techniques were used for data collection. Data was analyzed using Harry F. Wolcott's (1994) model and the computer program QSR NVIVO. The results demonstrated that the educational leadership is linked to the positivistic paradigmatic perspective that permeates the organizational culture. The incorporation of the critical humanistic paradigm in the MPSW, still it shows to be insufficient in order to transform the organizational culture. By adopting the Paradigm for the University Community of Apprenticeships that I propose, the MPSW would distance itself from the positivistic paradigm and would operate in tune with the adopted Critical Humanistic Paradigm.