Teachers’ Attitudes toward Democratic School Administration in Yatta City Schools

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the attitudes of teachers toward democratic school management in the schools of the city of Yatta, and to identify significant differences between their estimates of the exercise of directors of the Democratic pattern of directors attributed to the variables (gender, experience, qualifications, school gender, and school educational stage), The researcher adopted the analytical descriptive method. The study included all teachers in the town of Yatta, with a population of (1280) teachers, and the sample consisted of (100) teachers who were selected randomly, of whom (55) were men males and (45) females. The researcher devised and used a questionnaire to know the attitudes of teachers toward democratic school management. It consisted of (40) items. The results showed that there are no statistically significant differences at (a = 0.05 ) between the teachers of schools of the city of Yatta in their estimates of the extent to which managers practise the pattern of democratic administration due to (gender, experience, qualification, gender of the school and educational stage), while they revealed the existence of significant differences at (a = 0.05 ) between the teachers attitudes in their estimation of the extent of the exercise of the administrative managers of the democratic pattern attributed to qualification. The study has come out with a set of recommendations including: the need to follow the pattern of democratic management because of its immense benefits that are helpful to students and schools. It also helps to develop the school environment to suit the needs of our students, develop educational staff scientifically, practically and technically through increasing delegation of authority to them, satisfies their needs, provides feedback, and adopts a policy that takes into account the importance of developing democratic activities practically and theoretically at school. environment to suit the needs of our students, and interest in the development educational staff scientifically, practically and technically through increasing delegation of authority to them, satisfying their needs, providing feedback and to adopt a policy that takes into account the importance of developing democratic activities practically and theoretically at school.