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a naturalistic study of the induction year
Women have maintained a steady domination over men in the classroom at both the elementary and secondary levels since their entrance into the teaching ranks in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century. Their record in administration, however, has been much less impressive. Still in all, the most recent data indicates an upward trend in female public school administrators and yet there is very little research regarding females in the school principalship. Further, of the research that has been done, almost no attention has been given to what principals actually do on the job, but instead, tells aspiring principals what they ought to do. The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze the elementary school principalship from a naturalistic viewpoint. The primary focus is on the behavior of one particular female principal during a specific time period-the induction year. This study then is to obtain a descriptive account of a female principal's first year experiences. This research was carried out as a case study using the naturalistic paradigm and was conducted based on the model, The Man in the Principal's Office, by Harry Wolcott. The works of Erlandson, Harris, Skipper, and Allen (1993) guided the research design and methodology and Wolcott provided the model for the study as well as an historical baseline for looking at changes in schools and in educator roles. The primary subject of this study was a particular female principal of a selected elementary school during the first fifteen months on the job, which was currently her induction year. Purposive, emergent sampling was used to maximize information from student, faculty and staff groups within the school during the 1998-99 school year and information was also obtained from administrative peers and central office staff. Both structured and unstructured interviews were conducted by the researcher, a participant observer.
"Major Subject: Educational Administration".
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-147).