In-Service Training and its Role in the Administrative Selection Process of School Principals

Abstract

In the Greek literature there is a debate on the development, management, organization and effectiveness of the school units and which is the role of the school principals in these processes. Two concepts in Greece have been involved in this debate in the last decades related to the above-mentioned functions of school development: evaluation and training. The goal of this research was to investigate the views of the principals of school units in the prefecture of Rethymno (Crete, Greece) regarding their training needs and the role of these training during their in-service administrative selection process. 53 primary and secondary education school principals of Rethymnon prefecture participated in this survey. The questionnaire was used as a research tool for data collection. The research highlighted the needs and characteristics of their training and that their training should be taken into account in their in-service selection process.