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Examining How Social Justice Leadership Relates to Student Engagement in High Schools

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: The present study elaborates on the relationshipbetween school principals’ social justice leadership behaviors and studentengagement in relation to high school students’ opinions. The study wasconducted on 968 high school students from two different school types:Anatolian and vocational high schools. The data was collected by Social Justice Leadership Scale (SJLS) andStudent Engagement Scale. Data wasanalyzed by utilizing Pearson correlation, and hierarchical multipleregression. Main results indicated that student engagement and social justiceleadership has a moderate level of positive relationship; support dimension ofsocial justice leadership predicted 28 % of the variance in student engagementitself; and all demographics, and dimensions of social justice was found topredict 34 % of the variance in student engagement. Limitations are presented, andfuture implications for research and practice in the field of educationaladministration are discussed in relation to the results of the study.

Source: Cukurova University Faculty of Education Journal

DOI: 10.14812/cuefd.373808

Authors: Hilal Büyükgöze, Gönül Şayır, Ebru Gülcemal, Sevda Kubilay

Institution: Hacettepe University

Language: English

Topic: Educational Leadership and Practices

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2902000910

FWCI: 1.939

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Cited by: 13

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