Abstract:

The main purpose of this research is to determine the trends of postgraduate theses on values in the field of educational administration in Turkey. For this purpose, 48 postgraduate theses completed between the years 2000 and 2022 in the National Thesis Center of the Higher Education Institution were examined. The study is qualitative research and is carried out by document analysis method. The descriptive analysis technique is used to analyze the data. An evaluation form was created by the researchers and all theses are examined within the scope of these forms. Subheadings in the evaluation form consist of thesis information (year, type, university), research method, model, sample, sample size, data collection tools, and its subject. As a result of the analysis, it has been determined that the most published year of the theses on value in education management was 2015, most of the theses on the subject were made within the scope of Yeditepe University, the theses were mostly prepared at the master's level and almost all of them were carried out with the quantitative method. It has been seen that the research topics of the theses mostly focus on organizational values and value preference. It was understood that the data were obtained from the sample/study groups consisting mostly of teachers. Finally, the theses within the scope of the research were evaluated according to their results, and the common and differing results reached in the research were included. By identifying gaps in the literature on this subject, suggestions were made to researchers for further studies.

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