A Comparison Of The Headmasters' Role Orientation Between Chinese And American Elementary And Middle Schools

The comparison of the headmasters' role orientation between Chinese and American elementary and middle schools pays close attention to the substantive connotation of elementary and middle schools headmasters' role, devotes to search the headmasters' self-role consciousness, the self- role behavior, the social role expectation in Chinese and American elementary and middle schools as well as the connections between them, inquires about the connotation and the essence of headmasters' role orientation in the field of vision of modern school administration, analyses and compares the profound significance and the realistic possibilities of elementary and middle schools headmasters' role transforms, seeks the correspondences between the headmasters' self- role orientation and social role expectation, provides the theoretical basis and the practice models for exact and scientific role orientation of headmasters, and explores Chinese and American headmasters' dialogue of role opientation and the communicating foundation in the field of vision of modern educational management. Through the comparative analysis, discusses the practical significance and the profound historical significance of Chinese and American headmasters' role transforms, seeks the productive way of advanced educational management idea as well as the professional headmasters, provides the role models for elementary and middle schools principals in the operation plane, and promotes the development of the elementary and middle schools management and elementary educational quality in ChinaThis thesis introduces a brand-new angle of view for elementary and middle schools principals and school superintendents in our country: In the modern school administration, the elementary and middle schools principals' role orientation should develop with the time, on the original basis of role orientation, combine more new fields of vision, the new concept and the new culture. This is the common tendency of the role development of Chinese and American elementary and middle schools principals in the field of vision of modern educational management. The elementary and middle schools principals' role orientation should develop with the time. Elementary and middle schools principals must have the correct and appropriate self- role orientation, try to achieve diligently the society expected the role orientation, devotes in transforming own realistic role behavior, enables thenselves to adapt the social development: change to professional principals from duty principals; change to capable principals from authoritative principals; change to specialized principals from administrative principals.The headmasters themselves need professional growth, need to manage the school culture diligently, need to take care of especially the things which the elementary and middle schools education is short of, need to devote in the school connotationdevelopment and the localization development. The headmasters should go towards the life concern.