Abstract:

The most important role for organizations to renew and improve themselves falls to their managers. This also applies to school administrators. Today, development and change are inevitable in all aspects of life and, like all organizations, educational institutions must make use of the highest technology, such as the Internet and computers. Computers, technologies and other developments in the field of telecommunications can be one of the key factors for the educational reforms to be undertaken in our country. It is believed that technology will play an important role in the restructuring of schools. Therefore, school principals who know how to exploit technology in management and apply it to managerial processes will be more privileged to create more effective schools. This study aims to reveal the views of school principals about the use of technology for effective school management in educational institutions. Nowadays, the intensity of qualitative research in social sciences is increasing gradually. In this study, it has been preferred to use qualitative research method, as well. Phenomenology design was preferred in order to reveal the emotions, thoughts and knowledge of the school administrators in depth. Participants of the study were determined by purposeful sampling. The participants consist of 14 school administrators, seven of whom are school principals and seven of them are assistant principals working in private and public schools in Sivas city center. The data of the study were collected by semi-structured interview forms developed by the researchers. The data of the research was analyzed by content analysis. It was understood that the participants had positive views on technology and the use of technology in management. In the research, different results were obtained in terms of technological competencies of school administrators and using technology in management. In the study, it was found that school administrators mostly use technology for routine but facilitating and time-saving tasks such as student services, personnel services and office work. When evaluated in terms of using technology in managerial processes, it was concluded that the managers participating in the study could not use the technology effectively.

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