Headteachers' Leadership Practices and Students’ Discipline in Government Aided Secondary Schools in Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality, Uganda
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Date
2022
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Education Research
Abstract
This study examined the relationship between
headteachers' leadership practices and students' discipline
in secondary schools in Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality,
Uganda. Particularly, the study tested the relationship
between headteachers' collaborative culture practice and
students' discipline, the relationship between headteachers'
distributed leadership practice and students' discipline, and
the relationship between the headteachers' interpersonal
relationships leadership practice and students' discipline.
The cross-sectional design was adopted using the
quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data were
collected on a sample of 310 teachers using a questionnaire
survey. The findings revealed that while the collaborative
culture and interpersonal relationship had a positive and
significant relationship with students' discipline,
distributed leadership had a negative and insignificant one.
Therefore, it was concluded that the collaborative culture
leadership practice is imperative for promoting students'
discipline in secondary schools, distributed leadership
practice is not an essential practice for promoting students'
discipline in secondary schools, and interpersonal relationship leadership practice is vital for the promotion of
students' discipline in secondary schools. Therefore, it was recommended that headteachers should promote
collaborative culture practice in schools to promote students' discipline, headteachers should not overemphasise
distributed leadership in implementing measures of promoting student discipline, and headteachers
should prioritise enhancing interpersonal relationships in secondary schools to promote students' discipline.
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Collaborative Culture, Distributed leadership, Interpersonal relationship, Leadership practices, Students discipline, Social competence
Citation
Mugizi, W., Ampeire, K. H., & Kemeri, J. (2022). Headteachers' Leadership Practices and Students’ Discipline in Government Aided Secondary Schools in Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality, Uganda. Interdisciplinary Journal of Education Research, 4, 44-59. https://doi.org/10.51986/ijer-2022.vol4.04