SCHOOL MANAGEMENT CHANGE IN THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT PARADIGMS SHIFT

Abstract

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and restored Independence of Lithuania post-soviet countries faced with inevitable transformations in educational management.The article presents school management changes and overlooks Lithuanian school management development and its tendencies after becoming an independent state in the context of educational management paradigm shift.It also unfolds the changing roles and functions of school principals in the alternations of political ideologies.Scientific literature unfolds exclusive role of school principals in the process of educational management transformation.The article is based on the principles of paradigm shift and systematic approach on management.