The Role of Leadership in the Development of the Creative School in Palestine

Suheir Sulieman Sabbah

Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Psychology, Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem-Abu Dies, Palestine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20448/journal.509/2017.4.1/509.1.1.7

Keywords: Leadership, Creative school, Development, Palestine.


Abstract

The world faces a great developmental revolution in all scientific fields which in its turn affects different aspects of life, such as: the medical, engineering and educational fields, etc. The educational school’s aspect in particular will be the topic of this research. It tries to assist in developing the different aspects of the educational leader’s character in order to be capable to work, conduct research, create and innovate through developing how to think and how to be a creative leader of a creative school. This study aims at recognizing the role of educational leadership in developing the creative school in Palestine. Two focus groups, each of which consists of 15 members, were met. According to their responses, a list of opinions and suggestions, that had been given to explain the educational role in developing a creative school, was applied to a small sample of 116 school’s male and female leaders. Results showed high percentage in the role of educational leader of average 4.43 and a standard deviation of 0.29. The highest percent was for the role of school’s administration and class’ environment followed by teacher’s role and extra class activities respectively.

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