Twenty-fifth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

Among the major powers building the contemporary context of educational and school leadership; learner centered leadership, picking the research evidences and decision making upon the data, increasing competition and school selection, system oriented social integration, globalization and phenomenon of knowledge society can be counted. This leadership requires having analytical skills, coping with the increasing competition phenomenon and school selection, achieving concern for system oriented society. In this context in this paper, the impacts of these powers building the educational administration context on the preparation of the educational and school leaders for their tasks especially the impacts on the doctoral programmes of educational administration field was discussed. Personnel interviews and questionnaires were conducted with trainers about the subject. Consequently, it is inevitable to review the doctoral programs that train educational and school leaders in terms of goal, content, and teaching style contexts, and quality them according to requirements of new context. Based on these developments, the educational and school administrator training policies of each country educational system should be changed according to the requirements of the field and modernized.