Seyedeh pardis Hashemi; Naser Shirbagi
Abstract
This qualitative research aims to apply the Grounded theory to developing an effective leadership model for unqualified teachers in elementary schools, which is associated with the discovery of school community members’ experiences about their interaction with those teachers, employing and explaining ...
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This qualitative research aims to apply the Grounded theory to developing an effective leadership model for unqualified teachers in elementary schools, which is associated with the discovery of school community members’ experiences about their interaction with those teachers, employing and explaining the behavior of incompetent teachers. Data were analyzed with purposeful sampling and the Grounded theory strategy systematically through interviews with 46 participants who were members of the school community of Sanandaj city, collected during 5 months in three stages of theoretical coding. 211 open codes, 60 axial, and 17 selective codes were acquired and the final model was extracted with MAXQDA 2020. Based on the contributors' ideas, the livelihood and cultural issues of teachers and the politicization of education are the existing fields of recruiting unqualified teachers, defects in the recruitment process and defective bureaucracy in the education system are the reasons for incompetent teachers hiring, supporting professional development, promote teachers job satisfaction and the implementation of punitive measures are the solutions to interact with these teachers and the triple managerial skills have been mentioned as effective factors involved in their leadership. Demonstrating a systematic process of results with a final model is the innovation of this research. Based on the results, very few of these teachers changed and the academic performance has been achieved; But many of these teachers are not transformed and neglect the psychosocial aspects of students, weakness in establishing human relations, unprofessionalism and an undesirable educational restitution are their characteristics.
