Examination of Ethical Problems Encountered by Educational Administrators in Schools

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10.2991/978-94-6463-686-4_38How to use a DOI?

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Morality; Ethics; Ethical Problem; School Principal

Abstract

Schools are the most widespread organized structure of the education system. Therefore, the quality and functioning of schools have direct positive or negative effects on the education system. School management is defined as a special field of educational administration. Since schools are seen as an open and social system due to their structure, human relations are the basic functioning of this organized structure. In this process, parents, teachers or lower and higher administrators may make unethical demands from school administrators. In general terms, ethics is defined as a sub- branch of philosophy that determines the problems arising from the differences in the values that individuals assign to attitudes and behaviors in social relations as a field of research. Instead of evaluating an attitude or behavior as good-bad or right-wrong, ethics is concerned with what is the criterion of good-bad or right-wrong. In this respect, ethics focuses on how to decide whether something is good-bad or right-wrong. The purpose of this study is to examine the ethical problems faced by school principals in their schools and the ways of solving them. In this context, the study was designed with qualitative research method to reach direct and in-depth data. Descriptive analysis method was used to analyses the data. The population of the study consists of Onikişubat district, one of the central districts of Kahramanmaraş province. The study group consisted of a total of nine school principals, including three primary schools, three secondary schools and three high schools, determined by random method. According to the findings obtained as a result of the research, it was seen that all of the school principals were exposed to unethical situations, especially the school principals at the high school level were exposed to higher levels of unethical demands by political authorities. Although the necessary written norms have been established to prevent the emergence of ethical problems within the system, the findings show that these norms are not very effective in preventing ethical problems.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Esef Hakan Toytok
AU  - Betül Akçakoyun
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/04/28
TI  - Examination of Ethical Problems Encountered by Educational Administrators in Schools
BT  - Proceeding of the 10th International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for ALL (ICLEL 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 538
EP  - 552
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-686-4_38
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-686-4_38
ID  - Toytok2025
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