Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to analyze the qualitative postgraduate theses and qualitative articles written in the field of 'Technology Leadership of School Principals' between the years 2010-2022 by meta-synthesis method. This research was carried out in order to examine the qualitative postgraduate theses of school principals on technology leadership in Turkey by meta-synthesis method. In the research, the analysis of the data obtained by document analysis was made. Using the keywords "technology leadership, school principals, digital leadership" on the thesis search page of the Council of Higher Education, graduate theses of school principals in the field of technology leadership and articles from TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, Google schoolar were reached. Content analysis method was used in the research as a data analysis method. When the findings of the research were searched on the YÖK thesis search page on the technology leadership of school principals, it was understood that the studies were mostly based on quantitative research. When the graduate thesis studies to be included in the research are scanned, it is seen that quantitative research is done in the field rather than qualitative study. When the number of researches on technological leadership is examined by years, it is thought that more research was conducted in 2019 and the reason for this is the pandemic process. It was seen that phenomenology and interview method were mainly used in qualitative researches included in the study. It has been determined that descriptive analysis and content analysis are used more as data analysis in qualitative postgraduate theses and qualitative articles included in the research. As a result, post-graduate theses and articles written by school principals in the field of technology leadership increased more after the pandemic process, and most of these studies were quantitative. It can be said that research.

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