| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 教育研究所 === 92 === This research aims to comprehend how the growth process of female primary school principals influences them on the career choices. The potential variables for female principals administrating primary schools and the styles of their leaderships are explored in this study.
The qualitative methodology is employed in this research to represent the unique experience and the career transitions in the educational works of three female principals, the interviewees of this study, in order to be the reference for female teachers who want to take part in the managements of primary schools. With a semi-structure questionnaire, the interview data were coded and analyzed by holistic-content perspective of narrative analysis. The issues to be explored include:
1. The personal experience from the growth process of female primary school principals.
2. The key events and people that have affected the career transitions of female primary school principals.
3. The dynamic process for female principals administrating primary schools.
4. The leading styles of female primary school principals.
5. The main elements that inspire female principals to remain their roles and jobs.
This study concludes with the following findings.
1. The original families and the growth backgrounds have great impacts on the personalities and the choices of career and marriage of female interviewees.
2. The female interviewees have suffered from the common experience of unequal treatments that result the gender behaviours when they play the roles of primary school principals.
3. The negative events from the learning process have significant impacts on the interviewees of their actions dealing with self-congregation, encountering problems, pursuing purposes, and keeping the truth.
4. Some of the interviewees got the encouragements to introspect themselves from the teachers when they were during the learning process.
5. There are closed relations between the marriages, families and the managements of primary schools.
6. In their transitions of career, female principals have inspired from two essential points including no space for them to carry out their ideas and the negative performances from other primary school principals.
7. To be a principal is almost the only career choice for a director teacher since the fair testing system of being a primary school principal and the traditional ideology of our education culture.
8. The self-recognition and self-assessment are the main points for the interviewees to choose their career.
9. The key people who have influenced the interviewees including family members, bosses and peers.
10. The further learning has not only brought the interviewees the foundation of their career but also caused them the higher working motivations.
11. The efficiency of the organization and the centripetal force of the members are affected by the styles of interviewees’ leadership.
12. The way, which the interviewees recognize themselves, has influenced their styles of leadership.
13. The interviewees are not limited to the leading theories. Instead, they concentrate themselves on the practical environments.
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