Abstract
TRAINING EDUCATION LEADERS AND THE QUALITIES THEY SHOULD POSSESS
The problems arising from the structure and functioning of the centralized education system and the inability to transition from educational administrators to educational leaders are interconnected issues. In order to cultivate school leaders instead of administrators, a shift towards decentralization should be prioritized within the centralized education system. According to research, the current organizational model, management philosophy, and traditions in our country only allow for discussions related to the theoretical aspects of training educational administrators, and it is extremely challenging to train educational administrators in Turkey when evaluated from the perspective of modern management principles. It is evident that the characteristics, practices, and criteria that future administrators in 21st-century schools need to possess cannot be achieved within the existing structure and organization of the centralized system. The aim of this research is to determine the adequacy of the practices used in the training of educational leaders in line with the opinions and thoughts of teachers working in the Black Sea Ereğli district of Zonguldak province. The phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The study group of the research consists of 15 teachers working in the Black Sea Ereğli district of Zonguldak. Personal information form and interview questions were used to collect the research data. Descriptive analysis method was used in the analysis of the data. In the study, it was determined that the teachers found the training programs used in the training of educational leaders insufficient and thought that they should be improved. The need for the Ministry of National Education to work on the training of educational leaders has been put forward as the main suggestions that this issue reveals an important situation.
Keywords
Leadership, Educational Leader, School Principal
