The research on the kindergarten principals' leadership of childcare education and its affecting factor

Abstract: In order to understand the kindergarten principals’ leadership of childcare education and the factors to affect it, this research conducted the survey research on 46 kindergarten principals from 28 provinces in... [ view full abstract ]

Abstract: In order to understand the kindergarten principals’ leadership of childcare education and the factors to affect it, this research conducted the survey research on 46 kindergarten principals from 28 provinces in China. According to the research, the kindergarten principals’ leadership of childcare education is at a high level (4.517±.20). This result is directly related to the samples of research. Among the kindergarten principals, 77.8% of them have teaching more than 10 years, 83.4% of them gain the bachelor degree or higher degree, 75% of them are 40 years old or older. According to the research, 63.9% of them think they can improve the leadership of childhood care and education actively, 41.7% of them think the routine work affects the leadership of childcare education and only 27.8% of them think they have enough time and energy to lead the childcare education. 83.3% of them think it is helpful to attend the training in order to improve their skills of leading childcare education, but only 41.7% of them think they can have the chance to attend this kind of training. 47.2% of them think it is important to communicate with the childcare education with experts and peers but only 36.1% them have this kind of chance to communicate with experts and 58.3% of them have the chance to communicate with the peers. In order to improve the leadership of childhood care and education, based on this analysis, it is necessary to offer more chances to kindergarten principals to communicate with experts, cut down the non-business work for them in order to keep their time and energy to develop the childcare education, improve the cooperation with the senior managers in order to balance the different tasks.

key words: kindergarten principals, leadership of childcare education, affecting factor