The Study of Preschool Principal’s Leadership History –An Example in Central Taiwan

• Main Authors: Tien-Sung Lo, 羅天松
• Other Authors: Chu-Shin Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12733146642301495019

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 幼兒保育系碩士班 === 101 === Abstract This thesis employs the qualitative research approach and case research approach to analyze how a preschool principal led her school staffs. This study sets out to provide a clear picture on how a principal led her staffs, built features of the school since funding of the school and various factors that affected the leadership history. The researcher interviewed the principal, three teachers and three parents from different stages and has analyzed the data from scripts, field notes and related documents and discovered the following: 1. The history of principal leadership includes four phases, “establishment of the organizational structure”, “professional growth”, “development and expansion” and “transition challenge”. 2. The principal applies different leadership behaviors to deal with various scenarios and displays different characteristics of leadership behavior: “task oriented leadership” indicates a clear working target, working method and inspection standard; “ relation oriented leadership” improves satisfaction of staffs toward their working place; ”transition oriented leadership” boosts expertise of all members in the school; “change oriented leadership” help the school get rid of negative impacts, which are caused by ill environment; “participation oriented leadership” encourages parents to take part in school affairs, enhances communication and improves cooperation of both sides. 3. Those factors which affect preschool principal leadership history can be categorized as below: “principal personal factors”, “teacher-relevant factors”, “working factors” and “internal/external factors”. This research also showed that principal personal factors play dominant roles in leadership history. According to the above study, the researcher suggests the following: 1. The principal should lead staffs to undertake further study and continue professional development. 2. The principal should apply each leadership behavior feature in an appropriate way and creates different influence. 3. Suggestions for future research can be to increase the number of preschool principal leadership histories and to investigate further into the principal′s leadership traits, leadership behaviors and leadership situations.