Özet:

This research was carried out to analyze the relationship between school principals' social justice leadership behaviors and school climate. The population of the research, which was carried out in the correlational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, consists of 20,937 teachers working in the public kindergarten, primary, secondary, and high school levels in the central districts of Gaziantep province during the 2020-2021 academic year. The research sample consists of 776 teachers selected from the population using the stratified sampling method, one of the random sampling methods. The data used in the research were collected from the participants utilizing the ‘Social Justice Leadership Scale’ developed by Bozkurt (2017) ‘School Climate Scale’ developed by Canlı, Demirtaş and Özer (2018), and Personal Information Form. To analyze the data, SPSS 24.0 program was utilized. "Pearson Correlation" was made in order to determine the relationship between the principals' social justice leadership attitudes and school atmosphere; "Regression" analysis was made in order to determine the effect of social justice leadership attitude on the school atmosphere. According to the results of the research, It has been determined that there is a "positive high level" significant relationship between social justice leadership behavior and school climate; suggestions for practitioners and researchers were included.

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