Needs, problems and competencies of school principals in Serbia
Abstract
Educational leadership has an impact on school climate, teachers' practices and student outcomes. Having in mind its importance, in this paper we wanted to examine the barriers that school principals in Serbia face in their everyday work, solutions that they propose, leadership tasks that they deem important, as well as those competencies which they feel they need to improve. To those ends we conducted a mixed-method study in which 107 principals, teachers, school counsellors, and representatives of school authorities participated in focus groups and interviews, and 200 elementary and high school principals responded to a questionnaire about leadership. Our findings indicate a myriad of barriers, predominantly related to ineffective education policies, imprecise legislation, unprofessional behaviour of teachers and principals and problematic relationship with parents. We also found that the principals felt that they needed to greatly improve their competencies from all six areas of the... Standards of the competencies of principals of educational institutions. The paper offers recommendations to policy makers about the needed improvements.
Keywords:
educational leadership / principals / Serbia / barriers / solutions / competenciesSource:
Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2020, 52, 2, 275-330Publisher:
- Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd
Funding / projects:
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, Grant no. 200018 (Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade) (RS-200018)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, Grant no. 200140 (University of Kragujevac, Teacher Training Faculty, Jagodina) (RS-200140)
- European Commission's TEMPUS project "Master program Educational leadership'' [543848-TEMPUS-1-2013-
DOI: 10.2298/ZIPI2002275T
ISSN: 0579-6431
WoS: 000615065000002
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85101652471
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IPITY - JOUR AU - Teodorović, Jelena AU - Ševkušić, Slavica AU - Џиновић, Владимир AU - Malinić, Dušica PY - 2020 UR - http://ipir.ipisr.org.rs/handle/123456789/326 AB - Educational leadership has an impact on school climate, teachers' practices and student outcomes. Having in mind its importance, in this paper we wanted to examine the barriers that school principals in Serbia face in their everyday work, solutions that they propose, leadership tasks that they deem important, as well as those competencies which they feel they need to improve. To those ends we conducted a mixed-method study in which 107 principals, teachers, school counsellors, and representatives of school authorities participated in focus groups and interviews, and 200 elementary and high school principals responded to a questionnaire about leadership. Our findings indicate a myriad of barriers, predominantly related to ineffective education policies, imprecise legislation, unprofessional behaviour of teachers and principals and problematic relationship with parents. We also found that the principals felt that they needed to greatly improve their competencies from all six areas of the Standards of the competencies of principals of educational institutions. The paper offers recommendations to policy makers about the needed improvements. PB - Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd T2 - Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja T1 - Needs, problems and competencies of school principals in Serbia EP - 330 IS - 2 SP - 275 VL - 52 DO - 10.2298/ZIPI2002275T ER -
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Teodorović, J., Ševkušić, S., Џиновић, В.,& Malinić, D.. (2020). Needs, problems and competencies of school principals in Serbia. in Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja Institut za pedagoška istraživanja, Beograd., 52(2), 275-330. https://doi.org/10.2298/ZIPI2002275T
Teodorović J, Ševkušić S, Џиновић В, Malinić D. Needs, problems and competencies of school principals in Serbia. in Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja. 2020;52(2):275-330. doi:10.2298/ZIPI2002275T .
Teodorović, Jelena, Ševkušić, Slavica, Џиновић, Владимир, Malinić, Dušica, "Needs, problems and competencies of school principals in Serbia" in Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 52, no. 2 (2020):275-330, https://doi.org/10.2298/ZIPI2002275T . .