A STUDY OF PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP PRACTICES AND SCHOOL ETHICAL CLIMATE
Abstract
- This study aims to study the principals’ leadership practices and school ethical climate in Basic Education High Schools, Myaungmya Township, Ayeyarwaddy Region. The participants were 6 principals and 243 teachers in 6 Basic Education High Schools during the 2018-2019 academic year. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The questionnaire for principals’ leadership practices was developed by the researcher based on Leithwood and his colleagues’ successful leadership model and the questionnaire for ethical climate was based on Victor and Cullen’s the ethical climate questionnaire. The internal consistency of Principals’ Leadership Inventory and School Ethical Climate were 0.91 and 0.82 respectively. Descriptive statistics, Independent Samples t Test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson product-moment correlation were used for data analysis. According to the quantitative findings, the level of principals’ leadership practices was high level. Setting direction was higher than other dimensions and managing the instructional program was lower than others in principals’ leadership practices. According to personal factors, although there were no significant differences between gender, there were significant differences between qualification and administrative services of principals in leadership practices. The level of school ethical climate in Basic Education High Schools in Myaungmya was high. Among the school ethical climate, law and code was the highest level and instrumental at the lowest level as ethical climate types. According to personal factors, there were significant differences between qualification and position of teachers. The results of finding on the relationship, all dimensions of leadership practices were positively related to all dimensions of school ethical climate.
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Year
- 2020
Author
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Myat Htet San
Subject
- Educational Theory
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)