Abstract:

Praetorianism is an administration system where the military takes an active role in political decisions openly or covertly. Also, preetorianism is the interference of a state or an individual with another person, against their will, and defended or motivated by a claim that the person interfered with will be better off or protected from harm. It involves a limitation on the freedom or autonomy of some agent and it does so for a class of reasons. The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of school principals' preetorianistic behavior. This research was designed with a descriptive scanning model. The target universe of the research is composed of 370 school directors working in public and private secondary schools in 25 districts of Ankara. In the research, the entire universe was reached and a "complete counting" technique was used. Data of the study were obtained using the preetorianism scale developed by the researcher. The data were using descriptive statistical methods. According to the results of the study, the most preetorianistic behavior of the school principles’ is ‘helpfulness’. It was also identified as praetorianistic behaviors in which 'authoritarianism', 'sordidness', 'compelling' and 'orientation' were dominated by school principles, respectively. However, school principles also have some preetorianistic behavior in terms of 'negative criticism' and 'restrictiveness'. The preetorianistic behaviors of school principles differ significantly according to the variables of gender, educational status, school type, and sector. On the other hand, it has been determined that professional tenure does not differentiate between praetorianistic behaviors.

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