The Views of Headteachers on Delegating Headteachers

Abstract

The main objective for this study is to investigate the views of headteachers about the measures, process and possible results of selecting headteachers in Turkey. In order to reach this main purpose, a qualitative research has been realized with phenomological desing. The study group for this study, all of whom working in the central district of Malatya city in the 2014-2015 academic year, is consisting of 15 headteachers, has been selected by means of maximum likelihood sampling model in which 5 headteachers were left as they didn’t completed their 4 years period, 5 headteachers were selected as the headteacher for the first time and finally 5 headteachers were re-elected. The data of the research was collected with a semi-structured interviewing form based on the official regulation under Turkish Ministry of National Education about selecting headteachers. These data have been analyzed with descriptive analyzing technique. The results showed that selecting headteachers should be much more objective, fair and based on competences and on the other hand the new regulation has not yet answered this necessity as expected. Based on the findings of this study, it can be recommended that criteria must be identified to rise institutional standards and evaluations must be done in terms of considering these standards.