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Investigation Of School Administrators’ Opinions On Trends Of Educational Philosophy By The Q Method
 
 
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Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi, TURKEY
 
 
Publication date: 2023-06-30
 
 
Anatolian Journal of Educational Leadership and Instruction 2023;11(1)
 
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Philosophical thoughts on education influence many main elements of education such as educational concepts, principles, beliefs, attitudes and educational practices. The educational philosophy understandings adopted by school administrators in their professional lives are important in terms of their attitudes and behaviors in management processes. In this study, it was tried to determine the opinions of school administrators regarding educational philosophies and to test whether there is a significant difference between educational philosophies in terms of some variables with the Q method. It is thought that examining the preferences of school administrators regarding the philosophy of education with the Q method will bring a different dimension to the subject. A number of judgment statements regarding the perennialism, essentialism, progressivism and reconstructionism philosophy of education were formed in this study. These judgment statements are in the form of “As a school administrator…” and it was tried to determine the level of participation of school administrators in these statements. The data used in the study were obtained from education administrators working as school administrators in the central districts of Van. In the analysis of the data, the Q method, which aims to measure the perspectives, ideas, beliefs, behaviors and tendencies of individuals, was used. There are 30 judgment statements in this study. For this reason, +4, -4 scale was defined as a Q-series in order to differentiate the opinions of school administrators. This scale is designed between strongly agree (+) and strongly disagree (-). Within the scope of the study, it was determined that the participants' opinions were collected in 3 factors and these factors differed significantly from each other in many items.
ISSN:2148-2667
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