Social Sciences
Mehdi Bagheri; Iran Sheikhabadi; Hoseinali Jahed
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the supervisory components of educational leaders of elementary schools in order to provide a comprehensive model for Iran's government education.Methodology: The method of this research was a qualitative and exploratory method (using background ...
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Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the supervisory components of educational leaders of elementary schools in order to provide a comprehensive model for Iran's government education.Methodology: The method of this research was a qualitative and exploratory method (using background theory/foundation data), in terms of its purpose, it was an applied type of applied research, and according to its purpose, it was a descriptive type of correlation. In this research, data was collected using texts and semi-structured interviews. The statistical population in this research included professors of educational sciences and education experts in Hormozgan province. In this way, the interviewees include education experts and the interviews of the experts were conducted until theoretical saturation. The method of data analysis in the qualitative part was content analysis. The coding steps used in this research included open and axial coding.Findings: The results showed that 8 basic indicators were obtained for the supervision model of educational leaders in primary schools, which are: 1- Leadership in educational improvement 2- Leadership in curriculum improvement 3- Leadership in staff improvement 4- Theoretical skill and scientific 5- Technical and technological skills 6- Ethical and professional skills 7- Management and leadership skills 8- Communication skills.
Afsaneh Peermoghan; Rezvan Hosseingholizadeh; Mohsen Noghani Dokht Bahmani
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to study the ethnographic organizational culture of the two primary schools in Mashhad based on Schein's model.Methodology: This study was applied in terms of purpose and ethnography with a qualitative approach. The study sample consisted of 15 principals, deputies, ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to study the ethnographic organizational culture of the two primary schools in Mashhad based on Schein's model.Methodology: This study was applied in terms of purpose and ethnography with a qualitative approach. The study sample consisted of 15 principals, deputies, teachers and students in two primary schools for girls and boys in the city of Mashhad in the academic year 2019-20 who were selected in a purposeful manner and according to the principle of saturation. Sample volume adequacy was determined based on theoretical saturation. In order to collect data, semi-participatory observation and semi-structured interviews were used and for data analysis, coding technique was used in three stages of open, axial and selective coding. The validity of the results was provided by the members of the research team based on the four criteria of Goba and Lincoln, with the assurance of the "authenticity" of the data, as well as the coding and review.Findings: The results showed the identification and extraction of 37 selective categories at three levels of behavioral patterns (18 selective codes), values and norms (12 selective codes), and fundamental assumptions and beliefs (7 selective codes) based on Schein's view. Out of 436 open codes, 227 open codes at the level of behavioral patterns, 121 open codes at the level of values and beliefs, and 88 open codes at the level of basic assumptions were identified. Out of a total of 88 central codes, 42 codes were extracted at the level of behavioral patterns, 29 codes at the level of values and norms, and 17 codes at the level of basic assumptions of organizational culture. Important features of organizational culture at the level of behavioral patterns can be poor social interaction between school members and inappropriate behavior of school staff with students and at the level of values and norms to cooperation, social empathy with parents and student motivation, and at the level of assumptions to cooperation. He mentioned the cooperation of parents and students in school affairs, students' discipline, school identity, monitoring and management of staff disciplinary behavior, and staff accountability.Conclusion: Given the dominance of bureaucratic, formal and controlling organizational culture characteristics in the studied schools and the dichotomy between bureaucracy and participation in the three levels of organizational culture, it is necessary to pay special attention to the soft and multi-layered category of school organizational culture. Especially in the field of teaching and learning, in the educational policy-making and decision-making process at the local and national levels by educational policy makers, especially school principals.
Narges Shariatmadari; Alaedin Etemad Ahari; Asghar Sharifi
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Purpose: The aim of this research was designing of justice-oriented leadership model in the management of primary schools of Tehran city with a structural equation modeling approach. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and In terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from ...
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Purpose: The aim of this research was designing of justice-oriented leadership model in the management of primary schools of Tehran city with a structural equation modeling approach. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and In terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from type of quantitative. The research population was the primary school managers of Tehran city in the 2019-20 academic years with number of 1419 people, which the sample size based on the Cochran's formula was calculated 302 people who were selected by step stratified sampling method with respect to the volume ratio of areas. To collect data were used from researcher-made questionnaire of justice-oriented leadership with 63-item, which the content validity was confirmed by experts opinion and the construct validity was confirmed by exploratory factor analysis and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and combined methods. Data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and PLS software. Findings: The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that justice-oriented leadership has six dimensions of causal conditions (with two components of organizational factors and attitudinal factors), central phenomenon of justice-oriented leadership (with four components of behavioral patterns and moral characteristics, support through two-way communication, strengthening moral behavior and decision making), strategies and actions (with two components of achievement of reward through performance and achievement of goals through reward), intervening conditions (with three components of managers differences, staff differences and managers changes), underlying conditions (with two components of factors encouraging fair behavior and factors threatening fair behavior) and consequences (with three components of school-related outcomes, staff-related outcomes and managers-related outcomes). Also, the results of structural equation modeling showed that the justice-oriented leadership model had a good fit and the components of each dimensions on their respective dimensions and all dimensions on justice-oriented leadership had a significant effect (p < 0.05). Conclusion: According to the findings, planning is essential to use the justice-oriented leadership model to improve school management. As a result, officials and planners can use the justice-oriented leadership model to improve the performance of managers and hold in-service courses for them in the form of workshops.
