Abstract:

Teachers are one of the variables that need to be empowered in order to improve educational systems. This research will provide a relevant literature to the researchers who wish to carry out research on this subject by compiling studies on teacher empowerment. The aim of the study was to determine thematic, methodological and statistical trends by systematically examining the related studies on teacher empowerment in Turkey and abroad. In the study, data were collected through document investigation. The data source of the research is 19 theses and 51 research articles. "Examination Form of Studies Related to Teacher Empowerment" was used as data collection tool. Description analysis was used to analyze the data. Organizational commitment and teacher empowerment relationship is the most studied variable in the studies examined. This issue has been studied in 2018 at most. The number of articles written by three authors is three is very much in number. The number of qualitative researches on teacher empowerment is higher. The scale / questionnaire was used most as the data collection tool. The most widely used theoretical basis for the scales used belongs to Spreitzer (1995). The correlation analysis was used mostly as data analysis method.

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