Abstract:

In this research, it is aimed to evaluate the opinions of village school principals about being a principal in a village school. 29 village school principals participated in the research, which was carried out with a phenomenological approach based on the experiences of school principals in village schools. Interviews with school principals were analyzed in depth with content analysis and descriptive analysis techniques. According to the results, being a principal in a village school is a difficult task that requires struggling with impossibilities. In addition, it is like a family environment with warm and sincere relations and offers many learning opportunities. In village schools, there are many problems related to bureaucratic work, infrastructure and resource supply, education and training processes, bussed education process, students, teachers and parents, and school principals produce different solutions to overcome these problems. The results reveal that village schools have problems that go beyond village school principals and need to be resolved at the Ministry level. Based on these results; suggestions were made for village schools such as positive discrimination in all processes, granting a budget, improving the personal rights of village teachers, and carrying out comprehensive awareness-raising activities for parents.

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