New Challenge of School Principals

Abstract

Increasing diversity in schools has made the culture of living together an important issue in schools and forces education, schools, and school administrations to transform. The roles, responsibilities, and tasks of school principals are also transforming. However, the culture of living together does not fully coincide with the values of the nation-state. Laws of nation states, social understanding, and beliefs and values of school principals create significant obstacles for school principals who are expected to lead the culture of living together. On the other hand, school principals-preparing programs keep their traditional approach, are theory-oriented, and lack appropriate educational strategies. This new challenge to school principals needs to be understood, and the preparing of aspiring and incumbent school principals needs to be reconsidered in this new framework.