Fundamental and Empirical Research on the Self-Renewal of Schools Principal's Leadership

本研究的目的是从校长形象转变的角度，阐明校长角色期望如何转变以及应该如何转变。因此，我们的研究分为三类：国外研究、历史研究和调查研究。我们在这三个部分进行了研究，取得了以下成果。国外研究：根据美国等国的理论研究成果，对校长的形象和对校长角色的期望进行分类。校长“改革发展型”形象的形成正是这些理论研究的结果。这种校长形象是建立在管理职能和理念基础上的。历史研究：我们从事战后日本校长形象的历史研究。我们发现，校长在日本的形象与当时的教育政策和教育问题有很大的关系。调查性研究：调查了校长、副校长和教师对学校管理方式、校长管理行为方式、校长专业发展、校长职业生涯、校长选拔制度和制度改革的看法。我们调查的应答率超过60%。现在我们正在分析调查结果。

The purpose of this study is to clarify how expectations of principals' roles transform and should transform, from the viewpoint of the change of principals' image. Therefore, our study consists of the following three categories : foreign study, historical study and investigative study. We have studied in these three parts and got the following results.1. Foreign study : We classified principals' image and expectations of principals' roles based on the results of theoretical study in the United States etc. . Principals' image of "Reform-Development-Style" results from these theoretical study. This principals' image is based on the function of management and the ideal.2. Historical study : We have engaged in historical study about principals' image in postwar Japan. We found that the principals' image in Japan had very much to do with the educational policy and the educational problems of those days.3. Investigative study : We investigated how principals, assistant principals and teachers think of the management style in school, the style of principals' management behavior, the professional development of principals, the career of principals, the system of principal selection and the reform of the system. The response rate of our investigation was over 60%. Now we are on the process of analysing the results of the investigation.