Review of school leadership research in terms of content analysis

Abstract

This research aims to conduct content analysis of the published articles on school leadership in the Scopus database and thus ascertain the tendencies of articles that were published in journals. It is a qualitative research with a design involving document analysis. The research has been limited to 88 articles on school leadership within the Scopus database that were subsequently analysed. In the selection process, attention has been paid to select articles published in journals that were indexed in the Scopus database for the period between 2012 and 2017. The articles were analysed through content analysis. Based on the data it was found that school managers are predominantly used as the sample group. It was also indicated that the studies were mostly qualitative and co-authored. As a result of the analysis conducted, it was ascertained that studies on school leadership were generally performed in the United States.   Keywords: Education management, leadership, leadership approaches, Scopus, content analysis