| School leadership is one of the conditions that directly affect the teachers' performance, which in turn affects the students' achievement, and in the long run, fosters or hinders the involvement of the community in educational matters. Some leadership thinkers such as Hans Finzel believe that there are a great many things that leaders cannot do, are not allowed to do, are impeded in doing. Others such as Lin Bothwell think that there are actions, strategies, and opportunities that leaders can do, should do, and must do. The literature on school leadership abounds in models, styles and techniques. The present investigation aimed at discovering through Chadian secondary school in-service teachers' perspectives whether their school principals have a transformational or a transactional orientation in the ways they run their schools. Seventy-five subjects were given the Bass multi-factor leadership questionnaire that depicts seventy-three behaviors or attitudes. They were asked to judge how often their principals displayed each of the behaviors. The data analysis shows that the majority of secondary school principals in Chad exert transactional leadership. |
