Public and Private School Teachers’ Opinions about Distributed Leadership
Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions of public and private school teachers about distributed leadership and examining the results in terms of some variables. As a research model, descriptive survey has been used. The target population of the study is composed of 3283 public school teachers, and 116 private school teachers. The sample of the study is constituted of 728 teachers who are chosen from this universe by cluster sampling method. The document that provides data for the research is a scale which has been created by the researcher and named as “Distributed Leadership Scale for School Organization”. The research results indicated that, “School culture” dimension has the highest values in both of the school types. Private school teachers” perceptions are higher in “taking responsibility” dimension. The perception of distributed leadership of men is higher in both public and private schools when compared to the women.
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