Modeling the effect of educational leadership on teachers' self-leadership with the mediation of professional development

Articles in Press

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Iran

2 PhD student in educational management, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Iran

3 PhD student in educational management, Ardabil Islamic Azad University, Iran

Abstract

This research was conducted with the purpose of modeling the effect of educational leadership through professional development on teachers' self-leadership in a quantitative way. The research method is descriptive correlation type based on structural equation model and its statistical population was formed by all the teachers of public and non-governmental girls' and boys' primary schools in Talash city, numbering 763 people, based on Morgan's table, a sample of 257 people A stratified random selection was made. In order to collect data, three standard questionnaires were used, educational leadership by Hallinger & Wang (2015), professional development by Godali (2016) and self-leadership by Houghton & Neck (2002), whose reliability using Cronbach's alpha method was 0.85 and 87. 0 and 0.91 were calculated. Analysis of research data was done using structural equation modeling method and Spss and Lisrel software. The findings showed that the assumed causal model has a good fit and can be generalized to the research community. The direct effect of educational leadership on teachers' self-leadership (0.58) and on professional development (0.93) is positive and significant. Also, the direct effect of professional development on teachers' self-leadership strategies (0.53) is positive and significant. The indirect effect of educational leadership with the mediation of professional development on teachers' self-leadership (0.49) is positive and significant. Therefore, it can be concluded that educational leadership, along with the mediator role of professional development, has an effective role in teachers' self-leadership. Therefore, administrators can lead teachers to self-leadership by using appropriate educational leadership and professional development.

Keywords

Main Subjects

Applied Educational Leadership

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 10 January 2023

Files

History

  • Receive Date: 13 September 2022
  • Revise Date: 10 November 2022
  • Accept Date: 10 January 2023

Share

How to cite

Statistics