Practices and Challenges of Principals Leadership in Governmental and Private Secondary School in Kolfe Keraniyo Sub City
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2018-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of the study was to Assess the practices and challenges of principals leadership in governmental and private secondary schools: The Case of KolfeKeranyo Sub-City Secondary Schools of Addis Ababa. It attempts to identify the major challenges and that encountered in relation to practice and challenges of principals leadership in governmental and private secondary schools. To address this basic study employed descriptive comparative study and survey questionnaire as its key method of collecting data that would assist to respond the research question. Interview and related documents review were also used as additional data collection tool. A total of 206 respondents (50 teachers, 14 principals, vice principals,135 students and 7 PSTA members selected from four secondary schools randomly. The data analysis and interpretation was carried out by using frequency, percentage, t-test, standard deviation and grand mean values were widely used to analysis the data.
The computed data affirmed that disciplinary problems ranked as the first major challenges and that encountered in relation to assess the practice and challenges of principal leadership of governmental and private secondary schools.The findings of the study indicated that the practice and challenges of school principals between and among government and private secondary school not satisfactory to the attainment of regional and national educational goals, the majority of the teachers, students and school principals did not have sufficient understanding about the setting of vision and goal of the school this items indicating that the leaders performance in formulating and vision and goal setting, risk taking and decision making, instructional leadership and people leadership, leaders performance ,competency are all inadequate. In order to alleviate or minimize the problems; the following recommendations have been forwarded. Since school culture is dynamic which is built by people who have different family backgrounds, learning experiences and seeing & managing things from their point of view regardless of others, members of school community should accept the inevitability of effects of the practice and challenges during school leadership practice. Despite these loopholes, principals encountered with frequent disputes and handled it according to their personal feelings and skills. Therefore, it is suggested to arrange continuous in-service training, workshop, and seminars so as to improve secondary school leadership practice knowledge and skills in leading.
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Challenges of Principals Leadership in, Governmental and Private Secondary School