Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
21st Annual Conference of the European Network for Improving Research and Development in Educational Leadership and Management, Antalya, Türkiye, 27 - 29 Eylül 2012, ss.111-113
Education is widely considered to be a change agent. However it seems to be changing towards an unknown future. Through the transformation, the demands on school have changed compulsively because of changing expectations of society in the last decade and this process will go on rapidly in future. Therefore, school leaders should recognize the exigency of change and predict the future. The purpose of this study was to determine teachers' and school principals' views about the role of school leaders in terms of change vision. This is a qualitative study. The data were collected via interviews based on the semi-structured open-ended questions. The data were analyzed by descriptive analysis techniques using NVivo 9. The frequency of the themes were also calculated to support the data quantitatively. The results show that changes in expected roles and competencies of school leaders, are needed and moreover views regarding educational change process in the future should also be revised. The main result of this study was that participating teachers and principals were not satisfied with participating to decision making process about the education system changes in Turkey.