Suggested guidelines for developing sustainable leadership of private science school principals

Abstract

The research aimed to study the guidelines for developing the sustainable leadership of private school principals, under jurisdiction of Khon Kaen Provincial Education Office. The participant included Ten experts for focus group discussion selected by Purposive Sampling including the Lecturers teaching Leadership Course in the university, the Provincial Education Office administrators, the school director, the expert, and the academic receiving doctoral degree in Educational Administration. Methodology regarded qualitative paradigm. The guidelines of developing the sustainable leadership of private school principals were interpreted through Focus Group Discussion from the experts selected by Purposive Sampling. Data were analyzed by using the Content Analysis based on conceptual framework and other issues being studied, and concluded into main issues. The findings revealed that the guidelines for developing the sustainable leadership of private school principals, under jurisdiction of Khon Kaen Provincial Education Office were provided into 9 categories. These included 1) outcome based oriented, 2) strategic administration, 3) the process based oriented (instead of planning), 4) Ethical and moral based administration, 5) professional administrors, 6) strategic abandonment or detachment, 7) cooperative development potentiality, 8) strategies measure for continual success, 9) building up sustainability. The paper will discuss about these guidelines. The paper may have implications for developing professional development of sustainable leadership in Thailand.