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School Administration During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges to Turkish School Administrators

Ümit Dilekçi*

Department of Child Development, Faculty of Health Sciences, Batman University, Turkey.

Periodicity:May - July'2021
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jpsy.15.1.17920

Abstract

This study investigated what difficulties school administrators experienced in making decisions, planning, organizing, communicating, influencing, coordinating and budgeting during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample consisted of 32 school administrators in the first semester of the academic year 2020-2021. Participants were recruited from seven cities (representing the seven geographical regions of Turkey) using purposive maximum variation sampling. Phenomenology, a qualitative research method, was the design of the study. Data were collected online using a semi-structured interview form based on a literature review. The data were analyzed using content analysis. Participants focused mostly on “uncertainty” under the theme of “decision-making”; “excessive change” under the theme of “planning”; “physical distance” under the themes of “organizing” and “influencing”; “lack of technological infrastructure and materials” under the theme of “communication”; “little participation in online activities” under the theme of “coordination” and “fewer cash donations” under the theme of “budgeting”.

Keywords

COVID-19 Pandemic, School Administration, School Administrator.

How to Cite this Article?

Dilekçi, U. (2021). School Administration During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges to Turkish School Administrators. i-manager's Journal on Educational Psychology, 15(1), 25-42. https://doi.org/10.26634/jpsy.15.1.17920

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