Educational Leadership' Problems of Government Secondary School Principals in Kellem Wollega Zone
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2011-05
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to examine the main problems Government secondary school
principal face in educational leadership in Kellem Wollegga Zone. The research design used was descriptive survey method. The sample consists of 30 Woreda Education Officers,30 department heads and 107 teachers. simple random and systematic sampling methods were employed to select tile respondents. The instruments of data collection were pilot tested by purposively selected teachers both primary and secondary data source were used. To gather the
necessary data 167 questionnaires were distributed" two focused group discussions with jive
members each and interview with 6 principals were conducted.
The collected data was analyzed using percentage, mean and weighted mean. For attaining the purpose of the study 6
Woredas with 6 Secondary Schools were selected by lottery method. The finding revealed that women participation at leadership position was very poor. In addition to this most of the principals were incompetent in providing educational leadership activities such as in building
the capacity of staff, in curriculum development and in conducting supervision as expected of them since they are assigned by political commitment. The attitude of the teachers towards principal ship assignment was largely negative mainly for it has been viewed as profession. On the other hand this showed those factors that influence Secondary School Principals in leader hip activity are: heavy administrative work load, lack of knowledge in research methodology, financial problem, absence of participative decision making, students' disciplinary problem, lack of constructive feedback and lack 0/ school infrastructures. From this we conclude that there are number o/problems in educational leadership that hinder the quality of education.
Finally, it was recommended that the quality of education in schools is strongly determined by the quality of leadership that exists in the school.,ยท. So, in order to minimize the problem the
woreda education office in collaboration with the secondary school principals prepare project and search for donor/Governmental or NGOs and mobilizing the community to alleviate the problem.
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Educational Leadership, Problems of Government