Gökhan Kılıçoğlu

Eskisehir Osmangazi University | ESOGU · Faculty of Education

Metamodernism, which is used synonymous with post-postmodernism or neo-modernism, has come forward in response to postmodernism and the emerged crises, instabilities, and uncertainties in all areas of this epoch. Metamodernism is a perspective situated epistemologically with (post)modernism, ontologically between (post)modernism and historically be...

Countries regarded as holding high levels of educational autonomy face a different set of constraints to that of countries with low levels of autonomy, these constraints being linked to the marketisation of schools. As schools become decentralised and given greater autonomy , school leaders are steered by a responsibilising framework that includes...

This study sought to examine the role of organizational legitimacy and ethical leadership in organizational hypocrisy, as well as to better understand its potential consequences in the school environment. The causal relations of organizational legitimacy, ethical leadership, organizational hypocrisy, and perceived work-related outcomes (organizatio...

Schools in Turkey are primarily influenced by the Ministry of National Education (Milli Eg ˘itim Bakanlıg ˘ı) through laws and regulations. Compliance with regulations might be characterised as superficial in many respects and can lead to schools 'decoupling' their espoused structures from the realities of practice. In other words, they might have...

The number of studies that evaluate and discuss the concepts of democracy and social justice in Turkey from the perspective teacher training, education policies and practices is extremely limited. Thus, the present study attempts to determine democratic attitudes and social justice beliefs of pre-service teachers and whether these variables differ...

The aim of this study is to test the theoretical model which hypothesizes that academics' academic intellectual leadership affects their perceptions of perceived organizational support and organizational citizenship. In line with this general purpose, it was determined whether the perceptions of academics' intellectual leadership affect their perce...

Bu araştırma, öğretmen adaylarının, aday öğretmen yetiştirme programına ilişkin görüşlerini belirlemeyi amaçlayan fenomenolojik olarak desenlenmiş nitel bir araştırmadır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu 2015-2016 Eğitim Öğretim Yılı Temmuz döneminde Eskişehir ilinde aday öğretmen yetiştirme programına katılan maksimum çeşitlilik örnekleme yöntemi ile...

The aim of this study is to determine the views of village residents, and educators working in a rural area on the servant leadership roles of the school principal and their reflections of these roles on the school community. Case study was used as a qualitative research method. Participants of the study consists of 8 teachers and a vice principal...

The purpose of this study is to test construct validity of Schwartz Value Survey in Turkish culture. Participants of the research comprise 389 teachers selected through cluster sampling method. The research is performed under five stages: (i) English to Turkish translation validity, (ii) language and meaning validity in Turkish language, (iii) cont...

This multiple case study aims to analyze education and living conditions of Romany students, their families, and their relation with the school. The study consists of three schools in İzmir, where mostly Romany students are educated. Study group consists of fifteen participants in total, three school staff, one student from the secondary level and...

When the times that we live in witnesses unprecedented rapid changes and transformation compared to previous historical eras and processes. This process could reveal various opportunities and benefits for individuals and organizations, but it could also reveal an environment in which inequalities and injustice increase with unexpected and shocking...

In the process of acquiring legitimacy and adaptation with organizational environment, there can be contradictions and discrepancy between statements and actual practices, and these paradoxical relations could pave the ground for the organizational behavior, which can be referred to as organizational hypocrisy. In educational institutions, hypocris...

Educational organizations in institutionalized environments may try to reflect a legitimate image of the environment in their internal structure. However, there may be loosely coupled relationship between anticipated legitimacy and the performed actions in the schools. Thus, that lack of congruence between rhetoric and the behaviors constitutes org...

Consistency in statements, decisions and practices is highly important for both organization members and the image of an organization. It is expected from organizations, especially from their administrators, to ‘walk the talk’ – in other words, to try to practise what they preach. However, in the process of gaining legitimacy and adapting to the or...

Change movements in the Turkish education system have been ongoing since the first years of the Republic. It is clear that restructuring the Ministry of National Education through enacted regulations has moved the current state of the Turkish education system to a different position. In this study, change interventions of the Ministry of National E...

Türkiye'de eğitim yönetimi alanında üretilen bilimsel bilgi birikimi belli bir seviyeye ulaşmıştır. Bununla birlikte başka ülkelerin sosyal, ekonomik, politik ve eğitimsel bağlamında geliştirilen teori, model ve uygulamaları eğitim yönetimi çalışmalarında esas almak bizi taklitte boğulmaya götürmektedir. Kendi eğitimsel sorunlarımızdan yola çıkarak...

The purpose of this study is to explain constructed theoretical models that organizational cynicism perceptions of primary school teachers affect school culture and academic achievement, by using structural equation modeling. With the assumption that there is a cause-effect relationship between three main variables, the study was constructed with a...

Biographic studies provide long term perspectives on leadership, learning of leadership attributes and its development. It is clear that life story of a leader is an important source of information that provides followers with information about the traits and behaviors of the leader. Thus, the current study seeks to offer an in-depth look at transf...

The purpose of this study is to explore views of teachers who have graduate degrees vs. those who do not, regarding educational research with respect to concepts, conductors, and the value of educational research, in addition to sources that teachers follow and how those sources contribute to their professional life, if at all. In this study, surve...

This study aims to handle the concepts regarding pressures for organizational change, resisting forces and causes of resistance to change, and ways for school administrators to overcome resisting forces. Continuous developments and range of triggers force school organizations towards change initiatives. Even though change is implemented for positiv...

The aim of the study was to investigate whether demographic characteristics of primary school teachers (gender, age, seniority, and working experience in the organization) and teacher number in the school as organizational variable significantly predict teachers' organizational socialization. The study was designed as a correlational research and t...