ERIC Number: EJ1409672
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 26
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Studying Negative Aspects in Educational Leadership: The Benefits of Qualitative Methodologies
Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, v8 n3 p549-574 2023
The aim of this paper is to encourage researchers to employ qualitative methodologies when studying the negative aspects in educational leadership. To this end, I focus on one negative aspect in organization -- abusive leadership and use it to exemplify the benefits of qualitative research and its potential methodologies. More specifically, I pose two questions: (1) How can the qualitative research improve our understanding of abusive leadership in schools; (2) what are the practical tools to study abusive educational leadership from a naturalistic perspective? Through qualitative research methods, researchers are likely to explore the complexity of human behavior and thereby generate deeper understanding of leaders' negative behaviors as well as of toxic interactions in the school. In this paper, I emphasize the epistemological contributions of qualitative methodologies to the research on abusive educational leadership and probe into the kind of knowledge we may gain when employing these methodologies.
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Administrator Behavior, Instructional Leadership, Academic Achievement, Moral Values, Parent Participation, Management Development
EARDA Turkish Educational Administration Research & Development Association. Dokuz Eylul University, Buca Faculty of Education, Izmir, Turkey 35150. e-mail: eyedderinfo@gmail.com; Web site: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/real/archive
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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