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International Journal of Excellent Leadership 2024, Vol. 4(2) 26-47
Teachers’ Opinions on Excellent School
pp. 26 - 47
Publish Date: December 31, 2024 | Single/Total View: 4/2 | Single/Total Download: 4/2
Abstract
The search for excellence in education has always existed from the past to the present. One of the places where excellent education is provided systematically and in the best way is relatively schools. Schools where students are provided with excellent education are excellent places. This study aims to reveal the views of teachers on the concept of excellent school. Phenomenology, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the research. The participants of the research are teachers who are receiving postgraduate education in the 2023-2024 academic year. Criterion sampling method was used in the research. The research data were collected with a semi-structured interview form. The data were analyzed with the content analysis technique. As a result of the research, indicators related to the excellent school and metaphors related to the excellent school were revealed. Indicators related to the excellent school were revealed as student characteristics, administrator characteristics, teacher characteristics, education and training characteristics, environmental relations, financial management, school culture, school climate and ethical behaviors. Under the themes that an excellent school is a place focused on development, where work is done in harmony, where differences are kept together, that contributes to the society, supportive, trustworthy, goal-oriented, loving, solution-oriented and that provides a sense of belonging, 25 different metaphors such as clock, family, ship, spring and rainbow were produced. Based on the results obtained, various suggestions such as creating excellent schools, creating basic indicators for excellent schools and disseminating excellent school research were presented to policy makers and researchers.
Keywords: Excellent, school, teacher, indicator, metaphor.
APA 7th edition
Kiral, E., & Istankoylu, H. (2024). Teachers’ Opinions on Excellent School. International Journal of Excellent Leadership, 4(2), 26-47.
Harvard
Kiral, E. and Istankoylu, H. (2024). Teachers’ Opinions on Excellent School. International Journal of Excellent Leadership, 4(2), pp. 26-47.
Chicago 16th edition
Kiral, Erkan and Hilal Istankoylu (2024). "Teachers’ Opinions on Excellent School". International Journal of Excellent Leadership 4 (2):26-47.
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