The Educational Praxis of Caring Leadership: An Exploratory Study of An Elementary Principal

• Main Authors: Ching-Yi Huang, 黃瀞儀
• Other Authors: Yu-Min Chien
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42323674556183249166

碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 97 === Abstract The purpose of this study bases on the point of caring ethic of feminism philosopher and the relative issue, inquiring the caring leadership praxis of an urban principal. And propose the conclusion and recommendation accordingly. In this study, the research purposes and questions include four dimensions. First of all, try to assess the concept of caring leadership of the principals in national primary schools. Secondly, to realize a elementary principle’s education praxis of caring ethic. Third, inquiring how a caring principal to build a cairng school and what challenges will a caring principal may encounter. The study employed a case study approach to explore aspects of caring leadership in educational practices. The school principal was a male who had nearly thirty years of experience in primary education. He was considered a caring leader by his colleagues in the school, the authorities at the Bureau of Education in Taipei County, and other principals in the same county. Data collection included in-depth interviews, participatory observation, document analysis, and research diary. Interviewees were comprised of the school principal, five administrator, five teachers, five parents and two students. Researchers also spend two whole days of every month shadowing the principal to gather in-depth, contextual information regarding to the principals leadership behaviors. According to the data analysis, researcher proposes the conclusion and recommendation. Conclusion are as follows: 1. Caring principal has the following core concepts: respect, appreciate, trust relationship, counselor concept, children center and service administration. 2. Caring principal practice educational praxis of caring ethic through the following ways: equally treat every school member, confirm the performance of school members, share his authority, build up the relationship and affection with school members, having the characteristic of engrossment and motivational displacement to communicate, making a decision on the point of children, and providing and support teachers the resource of teaching. 3. Caring principal built a caring school by combining the inner and outer caring community into a caring circle. 4. Caring principal’s achievement lied on school equipment, school curriculum, building parents’ relationship, lifting up the teaching quality, lead the administration and teaching work. 5. The challenge and difficulties that caring principal may encounter are: not easy to build two-way caring relationship with school members, the conflicts between caring and effects, the level of acceptation caring form principal, how to meet every school member’s need, the comflite between caring relationship and justice, the principal is confined by a role. Recommendations proposed as following: 1. Recommendation on the case principal: In the big scale school, principal can develop caring culture by holding activities on informal occasions、raise the demand on school’s effect and aware the conflict between the caring relationship and justice. 2. Recommendation on the school principal and administrators: principal and administrators should expect themselves as one-caring, to create a more harmony and effective communicative environment by express engrossment and motivational displacement to cared-for. 3. Recommendation on orientation for the school principals: A feasible way is to include the courses or contents of “school leadership ethics” in the training programs of normal education institutions and orientation institutions. 4. Recommendation on research method: the future research on the relative issue can be completely participator, to describe more deeply data. 5. Recommendation on relative research issue: the relative research can on the further way to inquire the different caring affection and expression under the influence of western and oriental culture.