A SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ON THE LEADERSHIP OF PRINCIPALS IN RURAL SMALL-SCALE SCHOOLS

Abstract

This study uses the literature analysis method to conduct a review. Enter the keywords "small rural schools" and "principal leadership" on China HowNet and Baidu Academics to obtain literature. The perspectives of the literature review on small rural schools are time dimension, value dimension, and element dimension; the perspective of principal leadership literature collation is the individual level and the organizational level; finally, it clarifies the literature context of top leadership in rural small-scale schools from three aspects. Comments on this research: First, most of the studies did not highlight the impact of "distance from the city" and "size" of rural small-scale schools on principal leadership; second, in small-scale rural schools, principals' "multi-role" seriously dilutes They are just "practices" of school leaders; third, they have not analyzed the leadership of small-scale rural school principals from the perspective of leadership theory.