Looking through the Parental Glasses: Delving into the Management Skills of School Management from the Perspective of Educator Parents
Abstract
This research examines the management skills of school management (SM) from the perspective of educator parents (EP). Examining the SMs’ management skills of the children of EPs, who have both educator and parent roles, is the main focus of the research. The phenomenon of the research, the management skills of SM, and the opinions of an experienced group of educators and parents were taken to investigate this phenomenon in depth. Because of this basic structure of the research phenomenology design was used in the research. The data of the research was collected through a semi-structured interview form. A total of 12 EPs from 10 different provinces of Turkey were interviewed via the internet. The criterion sampling method was used in the selection of the research group and it was aimed to have maximum variation. Interviews were analyzed through content analysis. According to the results of the research, six themes and 46 codes emerged. These themes were school management (f=40), problem solving methods (f=38), student management (f=31), school principal features (f=31), parent management (f=26) and decision processes (f =26) are listed as. As a recommendation, SM should be seen as a professional profession and SPs should be professionally trained. Communication skills, conflict and crisis management, student management, parent management and effective decision-making processes should be taken into consideration in SP education processes.
Keywords
School principal, school management, educator parents
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