Umman Sultanlığı'ndaki Kıdemli Öğretmenlerin Bakış Açısından Kuzey Al Batinah Valiliği'nde Sınıf Yönetiminin Hâkim Liderlik Stilleri

Abstract

 Bu çalışmanın amacı; Kuzey Al Batinah Valiliği okullarında görev yapan kıdemli öğretmenlerin bakış açılarından hâkim sınıf yönetimi stillerinin tanımlanması ve tanımlanan sınıf yönetimi stillerinde bu öğretmenlerin cinsiyetlerine ve kıdemlerine göre farklılıkları keşfetmektir. Araştırmacılar bu amaca ulaşmak için araştırmada betimleyici bir yaklaşımı benimsemiş ve bu yaklaşım doğrultusunda otoriter, demokratik, anarşik, katılımcı ve dönüşümsel stiller olmak üzere beş boyut ve 45 maddeden oluşan bir anket (sormaca) geliştirmiştir. Bu çalışmanın örneklemini oluşturan 330 kıdemli öğretmenden geliştirilen anket kullanılarak veri toplanmıştır. Çalışmada, en belirgin şekilde, Kuzey Al Batinah Valiliğindeki okullarda, dönüşümsel liderlik en yüksek puana sahip hâkim stildir. Ayrıca bu sıralamada katılımcı stil ikinci, ardından demokratik stil üçüncü sırada yüksek uygulama puanlarına sahipken, anarşik stil ortalama puanla dördüncü sırada yer almıştır. Otoriter stilin Valilik okullarında uygulanan en az liderlik tarzı olduğu belirlenmiştir. Çalışmada elde edilen bulgulara göre (α≤0.05) otoriter stil hariç diğer stillerde cinsiyete göre anlamlı bir faklılık tespit edilmemiştir. Ancak otoriter stil puan ortalamalarında ise kadınların lehine anlamlı farklılık olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Çalışmada elde edilen sonuçlara göre eğitim kurumlarındaki son değişikliklerle uyumlu bir şekilde sınıf liderliğinin desteklenmesi; sınıf içi eğitim ihtiyaçlarına uygun olarak demokratik, katılımcı ve dönüşümsel sınıf uygulamalarının genelleştirilmesi önerilmiştir.

Keywords

• Liderlik stilleri,sınıf yönetimi,kıdemli öğretmenler

The Prevailing Leadership Styles of Classroom Management in North Al Batinah Governorate from the Point of View of Senior Teachers in Sultanate of Oman

Abstract

This study aims to identify the prevailing leadership styles of classroom management in North Al Batinah Governorate schools from the point of view of senior teachers and to explore differences in response averages among the members of the study sample according to variables of gender and years of experience. To achieve the aims of the study, the researchers has adopted the descriptive approach and developed a questionnaire consisted of (45) paragraphs divided into five fields: authoritarian style, democratic style, anarchic style, participative style and transformational style. The instrument has been applied to the study sample consisted of (330) senior teachers, the study has reached out a number of results, most notably are: the prevailing style in Al Batinah North Governorate schools is the transformational leadership style having the highest score, followed by the participative style, then the democratic style in the third place with high practice score, while the anarchic style is in the fourth place with average score and the authoritarian style is in the last place as the least leadership style practiced in the Governorate schools. The study results have also concluded that there are no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α≤0.05) in the scores of the study sample attributed to gender variable in all leadership styles except the authoritarian one for the interest of females. In the light of the study results, the study presents a number of recommendations such as: supporting classroom leadership in line with the recent changes at the educational establishments; generalizing the democratic, participative and transformational classroom practices as appropriate to the educational needs inside classroom.

Keywords

• Leadership styles,classroom management,senior teachers

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