Diagnosing of The School Principals’ Assignment in Education System

Document Type : Qualitative Research Paper

Authors

1 MA. Student, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

2 Assistant professor, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Member of lifelong learning excellence center, Ahvaz, Iran.

3 Professor, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Member of lifelong learning excellence center, Ahvaz, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.34785/J010.2021.029

Abstract

This study aimed to find how principals have been appointed in one of provinces
of Khouzestan. Qualitative method based on Grandad theory was used.
Participants were principals, teachers, safeguard and monitoring managers,
assistants, instruction experts of province education and responsible s of selecting
principals whom chose purposefully. 30 informed persons with 10 years work
experiences were deep interviewed until reach to theoretical saturation.The
method of data analysis was open, radial and selective coding. So, data collected
from interview, coding and a category was chosen as axial of this study. Then,
other categories were extracted and at the end, paradigm pattern was structured.
Based on results, legal and executive deficiencies, applicant’s motives factors and
lack of political leadership skill were recognized as causal factors. Clannishness
was axial and key category on creative undesirable conditions of selection
principals. Personal factors were contextual and politics forces were meddler
factors. Strategies, which are used by that province education, were control and
legal supervision in one hand, and in the other hand, outward paying attention to
law and yielding in front of political elements; so their consequences were
inefficiency and decrease of educational quality of schools.

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School Administration
Volume 9, Issue 4
December 2021
Pages 40-61

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  • Receive Date: 01 June 2021
  • Accept Date: 26 November 2021

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