The role of managers' self-efficacy in professional learning and learning communities of teachers in Chenaran city: the contribution of educational leadership

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1 Associate Professor in Educational adminastrational , Department of Education Sciences Azerbaijan Shahid Madani University , Tabriz,, Iran.

2 A graduate of educational management at Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan

3 Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of managers' self-efficacy in professional learning and teachers' learning communities in Chenaran city: the contribution of educational leadership. The statistical population of this research is all the teachers of Chenaran city, and the random sampling method was simple, according to Morgan's table, 200 people were selected as a sample. The data collection tool is the standard self-efficacy questionnaire (Sherer & Adamz 1982), the professional learning questionnaire of Qasimzadeh et al. (2017), the social learning questionnaire of Qasimzadeh et al. (2017) and the educational leadership questionnaire (Oliver, Hip & Leak, 2010). The results of this research showed that managers' self-efficacy has no relationship with professional learning and professional learning communities, but educational leadership has a positive and significant relationship with professional learning and learning communities. Also, the results of this research showed that between professional learning and professional learning communities, there is a positive and meaningful relationship, and educational leadership mediates the relationship between managers' self-efficacy and learning communities, as well as the relationship between self-efficacy and professional learning.

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Applied Educational Leadership
Volume 4, Issue 2 - Serial Number 14
August 2023
Pages 176-197

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  • Receive Date: 12 November 2022
  • Revise Date: 29 December 2022
  • Accept Date: 26 January 2023

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