A Study on Relationships among Principals’ positive Leadership, Appreciative Inquiry and Teacher’s Hope in Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: Hsu Wen-Wei, 許文薇
• Other Authors: 謝傳崇博士
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93830609412988818588

碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 人資處教育行政碩士專班 === 100 === A Study on Relationships among Principals’ positive Leadership, Appreciative Inquiry and Teacher’s Hope in Elementary Schools Abstract This study is first to explore the current situations and the differences of elementary school principals’ positive leadership, appreciative inquiry and teacher’s hope. Next, the interrelationships among elementary school principals’ positive leadership, appreciative inquiry and teacher’s hope are discussed. Finally, it further explores the impact of elementary school principals’ positive leadership, appreciative inquiry and on teacher’s hope. The research methods include literature review and questionnaire survey. The survey subjects are elementary school education officers across Taiwan areas. The research handed out 886 questionnaires, among which there were 568 questionnaires valid with the availability rate of 64.1%. The data is analyzed by factor analysis, reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA and SEM. The findings based on the results of the research are as follows: 1. Principals’ positive leadership get the higher scores. 2.Appreciative inquiry get the higher scores. 3.Teacher’s hope get the higher scores. 4. The education officers who get the higher scores on the principals’ positive leadership are those who are female principal. 5. The education officers who get the higher scores on the appreciative inquiryare those who are female principal, with the college academic qualification above the Institute. 6. The education officers who get the higher scores on teacher’s hope are those who are female principal, more than 21years of service, and7-24 medium-sized schools. 7. It is mutually influential between the principals’ positive leadership and appreciative inquiry to teacher’s hope. appreciative inquiry has the mediating effect between princaial’s positive leadership and teacher’s hope. Key words: positive leadership, appreciative inquiry, teacher’s hope.