The Leadership Of The School Culture: A Secondary School Case Studies

From the first day of the birth, the theories and practices of School Management and School Leadership have kept on developing and improving. Though borrowing many theories from the Industry Management and Leadership, School Management and School Leadership have independently grown into an individual scientific system. As the successors and producers of culture, schools themselves have paid more and more attention to cultural functions. Based on the observation and analysis of cultural leadership in a high school, this thesis is going to expound how the leaders try to construct their school culture, and how to use shared vision, how to use scientific and people-oriented spirit, how to use democratic cooperation. Through the case-study, the thesis wants to describe the advantages of cultural leadership, and prove cultural leadership to be the inevitable trend of school leadership.The thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter One introduces the research background and the personal research reason of this study. Meanwhile, it analyses the research achievements at home and abroad. Chapter Two theoretically talks about the procedure of how school cultural leadership develops, and analyses the conditions and methods for operating school cultural leadership. Chapter Three sketches S School from three aspects, mainly including its history, its structure of management and its size. Chapter Four analyses three kinds of cultures in S school in the past. And compare with the past, the researcher elaborates how S School executes cultural leadership at present. In Chapter Five, the researcher explains two problems during the execution of school cultural leadership and tries to put forward some suitable suggestion.