A Research On Principal's Professional Development Based On Moral Leadership Theory

The 21st century is the opportunity for the development of the education. Governments are strongly supporting the development of education, and emphasizing on education to modernization. As a practitioner of modern education, the principal's professional development is concerned by all society. Chinese scholars had done much research of principal's professional development, but mostly confined to the improvement of headmaster's management methods, skills and so on, and to the quality of the principal himself and emotions as well as its management idea which has deep influence on the principal's management behavior concerns not enough. Even if someone has done the research of this aspect, they mainly focus on political quality, somebody even use political quality instead of moral quality. Schools should be an organization full of human feelings, the article introduces the Western moral leadership theory that full of humanism to the principal's professional field, so as to call for more scholars to pay attention to the moral dimension of principal's leadership.Moral leadership theory appeared in the 1990s. It has criticized the school leadership theory with rational and free value as the only guiding principal, because the school is a special organization. The traditional school leadership theories are directly from business management, they are not suitable to school, school leaders should implement the moral leadership. Moral leadership theory is rooted in the education environment; it's far more in accord with educational law. Moral leadership theory shows us a new perspective to recognize the professionalization of principal. This article is under the perspective of moral leadership theory to re-examine the issue of professional development of principal, in an attempt to guide the principal's further development.The research consists of four parts. The introduction states the background and the meanings of the principal's professional development which is based on moral leadership theory field. The second part describes the main content of the western moral leadership theory to pave the way for the following text. The third part under the moral leadership vision interprets the new connotation of the principal's professional development, it proposes new requirements of the new vision of the principal's quality connotation and role definition. The fourth part from the principal's quality, system design and principal training three dimensions gives strategies to principal to moral leadership theory field of specialization. The quality requirement is the principal towards a new perspective of the specialization's foundation, the system is the guarantee, and the training is the means of further development.