To Educationalist

A principal is the soul of a school. The role of a principal is especially prominent and pivotal in the process of fully implementing quality education. It is under such a background, school-running by educationalist becomes an assignment of an era and social consensus. It is not only the urgent need for education reform and development, but also a principal's fundamental pursuit of professional development.Thus, what does a principal in the educational forefront think every day? What does he do every day? How can he become an influential educationalist principal in leading regional quality education development? These issues will be highlighted as a new research topic.This study is based on qualitative research, applying grounded theory approach. It takes Principal X from S Primary School, A City as the research object, basing on the principal's socialization as its analysis framework. In order to collect all kinds of data, this study uses fully many methods,including field observation, multi-level interview, triangle validation and physical collection. Based on deep description of the fifteen general cases, and by using the approaches of open coding, axial coding and selective coding, this study also refines the grounded theory propositions of the principal's socialization.This research draws the following conclusions:First, the argument of principals'professionalization and specialization stems from different perspectives, and there is no need to discriminate. Socialization conbines professionalization with specialization and covers the shortage of professionalization and specialization, and it is considered as a more effective way on analytical framework of principals'development. It helps us get to know the principal as closely as possible, and reveal the various "truth" caused by the interaction within principals, schools and the society at the same time.Second, the principal's socialization can be divided into four dimensions:life, role, organization, result. The four dimensions are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. The dimension on life analyzes the principal's administrative career, childhood, family life, and school life. The dimension on role analyzes the principal's role playing and the role of perception. The dimension on organization analyzes the principal's vision, standardized administration, and innovative management. The dimension on result analyzes the educational thoughts and leadership authority from the principal.Third, to a principal, in order to speed his own professional growth and to promote the school development, the principal's socialization refers to the process of accumulating and condensing education experience in life, building and adapting professional roles in practice, promoting school organization reform in innovation, forming the thoughts of personalized school-running in self-reflection, building professional and moral authority in leadership,and Constructing and accumulating school culture in the fusion.Fourth, the essence of principal's socialization is the process of becoming an individual school-running person while a principal is giving full play to his own subjectivity. The purpose is to achieve the win-win situation of both profession and speciality with the help of the interaction within the principal, the school and the society. During the process, the principal not only effectively integrates the roles of an educator, a researcher, an administrator, an operator, and a leader, but also enhances the personal ability of learning, innovation, leading, social interaction and cultural construction.Fifth, as the main characters to an individual school-running person, the elements of professionalism, uniqueness and effectiveness have a lot in common with current academic research on the standard of educationalist principal. The principal as an individual school-running person, is the most likely one to be a educationalist. Educationalist principal is not only the fundamental pursuit of an individual school-running person, but also the future direction of the principal's socialization.The distinguishes between an educationalist principal and an ordinary principal are educational ideality, educational thoughts, a wealth of practical experience, the ability of innovation, high morality and the effectiveness on the task.Sixth, the path from an individual school-running person to an educationalist principal is also the process to seize the opportunities, carry out reforms, put theory into practice repeatedly, pursuit harmony and make progress by self-surmounting. It not only requires a principal to strengthen the inner drive system on professional ideal, professional ability, professional ethics, but also stimulate the motivation on management of innovation system, the training system, the evaluation system.Seventh, according to the Principal X case, this study on the principal's socialization does not possess its generality. Thus, it is a kind of essential complement to current speculative research on principal's development. It has not only unfolded a microscopic picture of school changes in the context of fully implementation of quality education, and also opened up a prospect to those who are trying to make the leap from an ordinary principal to an educationalist one. For those who are on their way of running a school, the most important thing is not to be an educationalist finally, but to experience the process of being one.