Universal Journal of Management Vol. 4(11), pp. 607 - 614
DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2016.041102
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Shadowing a Woman Administrator: A Turkish Case


Ramazan Asar 1,*, Yeliz Çelikten 2
1 Kutalmisbey Secondary School, Turkey
2 Kepez Primary School, Turkey

ABSTRACT

Turkey has a strong centralized education system in which all the decision-making is done by the Ministry of National Education. The education is mostly based on a traditional classroom system which is mainly teacher-based learning. Memorization is encouraged rather than analytical or critical thinking. In Turkish Education System, school principals are appointed according to relative criteria from those who are successful in their duties as a teacher or vice principal. Despite the obvious warnings about appointment of the school principals the criteria haven't been stated concretely and the appointments have been made according to the very general qualification indicators as declared in the Law of Civil Servant, issued 657. The researcher, in addition to interviews, observed the woman principal for nearly a semester. Shortage of "permanent female principal" among the subject of the experiment forming the example has left no chance of choice to the researcher and thus she has had to be contented with a principal named Anne (psomodonious), the principal of the "Hope High School" and the results have been summarized below.

KEYWORDS
Portraying, Woman, School Principal, Turkey

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Ramazan Asar , Yeliz Çelikten , "Shadowing a Woman Administrator: A Turkish Case," Universal Journal of Management, Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 607 - 614, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2016.041102.

(b). APA Format:
Ramazan Asar , Yeliz Çelikten (2016). Shadowing a Woman Administrator: A Turkish Case. Universal Journal of Management, 4(11), 607 - 614. DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2016.041102.