School Culture Leadership Practice Problem Research

Globalization and education reform lead to school culture revolution. School leadership has danger and opportunity in this case. Inexperienced school leadership and weak research ask for new way of school leadership study. In this context, Symbolic Interaction Theory provides a new possibility for school culture leadership research and practice.From the perspective of Symbolic Interaction Theory, school culture is process and result of school members definite, adjust, cognition and comprehend school culture symbols and the means in the process of interaction. School culture leadership is the process of school leader guide to form and perfect symbol system, which is in favor of students’growth through symbolic interaction with school members. In the sense, the connotation of school culture leadership include:to overall cognitive school symbolic system, to set clear symbol significance tendency, to praise highly mutual dialogue leadership, to emphasis on process and pay attention to the main role of the school staff, to pay attention to "everyday" leadership throughout school life, etc. According to the structure of the school culture itself and the way of leaders influence school and the members, the content or structure of school culture leadership can be divided into five aspects:value symbol leadership, moral symbol leadership, emotional symbol leadership, institution symbols leadership, artificial symbol leadership.To study existing problems of school culture leadership practice, on the base of theory views and analyzing form, the research has a field study in depth which utilize observation, interview method and combining quantitative questionnaire aiming at the prominent problems of universality validation. And the study indicates:firstly, the value orientation of school culture leadership practice exist double deviation; secondly, the content have a separation of material symbols and means, exquisite institution system miss the scale of people, The unintentional value symbol leadership is inconformity to formal one, the emotional symbol which base on daily life is weak, The abuse of power weaken moral symbols leadership; in the end, the process of culture leadership exist problems such as it suspended by principal replacement, authority symbol cause formal democracy, the lack of dialogue interaction, and the deviation of leadership and performance under the obstruction of exam culture.To resolve these issues, there are four ways for endeavor:firstly, to set up and persist in education orientation to correct double deviation of value orientation. Secondly, to practice five ways of symbol leadership correctly to which improve validity of cultural leadership content. Thirdly, to cognize school original symbol meaning system entirely from three dimensions to which reduce risks of system degradation intermittently. Lastly, paying attention to dialogue interaction to which eliminate multiple problem of school cultural leadership.