Leadership Styles
Leadership Styles Article Summary After reading the article from Journal of Contemporary Education Theory and Research related to “Leadership styles in special Education ” – which it is pretty recent considering it is coetaneous to Covid-19 crisis – two different leadership approaches stood out: 1) Transformational leadership, and 2) Democratic leadership. The article relates to qualitative research whose subjects to study were school principals and teachers in Greece, with the objective of examine their degree of job satisfaction depending on the leadership stated for their schools. There were questionnaires with close-ended questions filled out by 69 teachers in special schools and the results were stunning: they all preferred to work in an environment with a principal that promoted autonomy among the staff, being perceived as motivational and as an inspiration to do their job. This was related to the transformational approach, but also the same effect occurred when