Be ethical and social
Key attributes for green school principals to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Keywords:
green schools, school leadership, educational leadership, ethicality, sociability, sustainable developmentAbstract
Purpose –The profession of School leadership has changed and improved significantly in past few decades. Educators need to develop an in-depth understanding about how and in what ways, school leadership may contribute in students improved learning experience. This research explores the leadership styles adopted by school principals working in Government and private green schools in Northern India. Provides an insight about how their leadership style helps in performing various roles/tasks like facilitate teachers, ensure their participation in decision-making process, allocation of resources in an efficient manner, create productive and safe teaching and learning environment, formulate suitable policies for positive outcomes, making teaching and learning a remarkable experience for teachers and students in an exemplary manner with their leadership practices. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative research based approach was adopted using the questionnaire method to collect the primary data. A questionnaire, comprised of choice-based self-explanatory statements was prepared for a sample of 75 schools principals from various Govt. and private Green schools who were performing various leadership roles for at least 5 years. For analysis and interpretation of collected data, Likert Type rating scale was used. green schools
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