Needs, problems and competencies of school principals in Serbia
Educational leadership has an impact on school climate, teachers’ practices and student outcomes. Having in mind its importance, in this paper we wanted to examine the barriers that school principals in Serbia face in their everyday work, solutions that they propose, leadership tasks that t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | srp |
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Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Zbornik: Institut za Pedagoška Istraživanja |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2020/0579-64312002275T.pdf |
| Summary: | Educational leadership has an impact on school climate, teachers’ practices
and student outcomes. Having in mind its importance, in this paper we wanted
to examine the barriers that school principals in Serbia face in their
everyday work, solutions that they propose, leadership tasks that they deem
important, as well as those competencies which they feel they need to
improve. To those ends we conducted a mixed-method study in which 107
principals, teachers, school counsellors, and representatives of school
authorities participated in focus groups and interviews, and 200 elementary
and high school principals responded to a questionnaire about leadership.
Our findings indicate a myriad of barriers, predominantly related to
ineffective education policies, imprecise legislation, unprofessional
behaviour of teachers and principals and problematic relationship with
parents. We also found that the principals felt that they needed to greatly
improve their competencies from all six areas of the Standards of the
competencies of principals of educational institutions. The paper offers
recommendations to policy makers about the needed improvements. |
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| ISSN: | 0579-6431 1820-9270 |