| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 99 === Abstract
The study mainly bases on the caring ethic theory of Noddings, which is inquiring a male and a female principals' caring leadership behaviors in elementary schools and the meanings to the teachers. The Researcher then proposes the conclusion and recommendation according to the purpose.
The purposes and questions of the study include four ideas. First of all, trying to understand a male principals' caring leadership concepts and behaviors. Then, to know a female principals' caring leadership concepts and behaviors. Third, to inquire the meanings which are caused by a female principals' caring leadership behaviors to the teachers. Finally, to compare a male and a female principals' caring leadership behaviors.
The study is a case study which is mainly conducted by in-depth interview and participatory observation, and partly by informal interview, document analysis, and research diary. Besides, data analysis employed the six steps of Constent Comparison Method (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). Data trusworthiness includes triangulation, feedback and member check from the instructors for the accuracy of data interpretation. In addition, a male principal, three administers, three tutors, a subject teacher of Shih Yuan elementary and a female principal, three administers, four tutors of Fu Sha elementary are involved in the participants of the study.
The four conclusions of the research are as follows：
1. In order to put his “We are family” caring concept into practice, the male principal of the study develops four caring leadership behaviors perspectives: beautify the environment and add equipment, multicourses, create familylike caring interaction, and familylike problom solving.
2. The female principal of the study would like to build a caring campus where people feel safe and happy. Her caring concept is “school is home” and she carry out four level caring leadership behaviors: build and embellish the campus, fullfill the school vision into the multicourses, create warmlike interaction in the school, and reduce conflicts by trying to understand others while having different viewpoints.
3. The male and female principals of the study show fully of the caring behaviors, which make both of the two schools teachers willing to help them as their feedback.
4. The male and female principals of the study both have caring characteristics, while the study shows that different school backgrounds, administrators and teachers’ teaching years, and parents expects also cause their caring behaviors in different ways on interaction, organization and personal and organization in schools.
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