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ERIC Number: ED577252
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 20
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Distributed Leadership Behaviours among Elementary School Teachers
Yilmaz, Ayça Irem; Beycioglu, Kadir
Online Submission, International Journal of Pedagogies & Learning v12 n1 p41-61 2017
This study aimed to determine the level of distributed leadership behaviours of the elementary school teachers in Turkey. In this study, surveying was used as the quantitative data gathering method and focus group was used as the qualitative one. To gather quantitative data, "The Distributed Leadership Scale"-"DLS" developed by Özer and Beycioglu (2013) was used. To analyze the data, mean, standard deviation, frequency, t-test and one-way ANOVA were used. An interview form including two questions transformed from inventory questions was used to get qualitative data. For qualitative analysis, audio-taped sounds were transcribed. Then, the transcribed texts were coded. The results showed that the participating elementary school teachers displayed distributed leadership behaviours and they were enthusiastic about creating and taking part in an atmosphere which power is distributed. Most of the quantitative findings were in line with the qualitative ones. The interviews also revealed that elementary school teachers had the opinion that they were considerably supportive to cooperate and collaborate with both their principals and colleagues. The results also revealed that the differences among the participants working in schools that had up to fifty teachers and the ones that had fifty-one teachers or more were statistically significant. The result suggests that teachers consider small groups as an advantage to provide an effective contribution for leadership skills. On the contrary, qualitative results showed that most of the participants had positive attitudes and took responsibility collectively regardless of the number of teachers.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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