The Challenges Facing Public Secondary School Principals in the Arab Regions in Beersheba

  • Munaem Alian Abu Arar PhD student majoring in educational administration at in the Arab American University- Ramallah Branch
الكلمات المفتاحية: Challenges, public secondary schools, principals, Beersheba, Israel, Arab regions

الملخص

The researchers explored the challenges facing public secondary school principals in the Arab regions in Beersheba. The population involves all the public secondary school principals in the Arab regions in Beersheba. The researchers selected a purposive sample consisting from 30 female and male principals from 30 public secondary school located in the Arab regions in Beersheba. They obtained data from them through interviewing them. The interviews were held through Skype. They were recorded to analyse data later on. The researchers took the permission of respondents to record the interview.   After holding the interviews, the researchers found that the challenges facing the targeted principals. Such challenges include: 1)- Students-related challenges, 2)-Parent-related challenges, 3)-Teacher-related challenges, 4)-Administrative challenges and 5)-other challenges. The researchers recommend increasing the administrative powers granted to principals at the public secondary school principals in the Arab regions in Beersheba. They recommend making amendments to the standards that govern the process of assessing teachers.

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منشور
2023-09-08
كيفية الاقتباس
Munaem Alian Abu Arar. (2023). The Challenges Facing Public Secondary School Principals in the Arab Regions in Beersheba. مجلة العصر للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماع, (10), 120-134. https://doi.org/10.33193/eJHAS.10.2023.275
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