Identifying Trends in School Administration in the New Era (2000-2023)

Document Type : Mixed Method Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of History, Farhangian University faculty member (Assistant Professor)

2 History department, Law and social sience department, Tabriz University, East Azarbaijan, Iran

3 Department of Educational Management, Farhangian University, P.O. Box 889-14665, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/jsa.2023.63085

Abstract

Considering the expansion and increase of School Administration articles in the world scientific community, Reviewing and analyzing the literature in this area is the goal of this study. The study used a descriptive methodology. It includes all scientific articles indexed in the Science Direct citation database from 2000 to 2023. After filtering the papers, 2670 were examined using VOSviewer software to examine and show the data. The research findings indicate that the number of articles has increased since 2004, and The year with the highest percentage of pieces was 2023. Also, between journals with 2125 “Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences” 436 articles were ranked first. Also, 5 clusters were identified, and the subjects of leadership, education, professional development, higher education, teachers, school leadership, teacher education, and school improvement had diversity and as “education policy,” “job satisfaction,” “motivation," “development," “human capital” was the previous subjects of this field. This research concluded that areas such as; “COVID-19”, “teacher self-efficacy,” “technology integration,” accountability,” “and “professional learning community” were hot and new.

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