A Primary School Principal’s Power Operation

Today, Headmaster-in-charge system has put into practice widely in elementary and secondary school.No matter how stressed the role of the principal can not be overstated.By appointment of superiors, through actively participating in competition, or democratic recommend and other ways, someone obtains the position of headmaster, this is just the first step for the principal, principals’management functions, management quality and efficiency not only depend on what powers the principal has possessed, but also depend on how to operate these powers. Therefore, how to operate the power of principals should be paid close attention to education management practice and theory research. In this thesis, by studying on power operation, take a primary school principal as an example, with the method of field research, the researcher intends to draw the picture of current elementary schools, revealing the education management problems, and improving some strategic recommendations to the operation of the power for principals.School principal’s external object mainly includes higher educational authorities and students’ parents, which demand for school education in agreement, and differences in some points. As an executive officer of the school, principal is in the pursuit of "achievements", and "let superiors satisfactory", as well as pursues "effectiveness", and "let parents satisfied".Therefore, school principals must create different derivative modes of power’s operation for different needs.Overall, on the external power operation, the principal shows the characteristics of "weak", is "to meet the higher expectations". To "many" notice and all issued tasks from the superior, the principal must obey and perform, even to deceive. To students’parents, due to the atmosphere of social public opinions and the influence of the policy guidance, the principal now also give priority to satisfy and service.The internal power operation object of Elementary school principals is complicated, covering everything in the school, the school principal’s power characteristics in internal appear significantly, through organizing internal departments, supervising personnel, controlling time and space, reforming curriculum and teaching, constructing school culture, the principal makes his own power run to affect every corner of the campus. These powers are operated both from external forces and subjective efforts. This situation makes us clearly realize the importance of the principal for the school development, there is reason to believe the President’s quality decides the quality of the school. by means of the examples of the power operation of today’s school principal, the researcher sums up the forms of power operation of primary school principal currently, at the same time naming them obedience, drag, political rhetoric, micro-power technology applications,etc. Principals rely on positional power, as well as the resulting power of production, and expand their power net work. Power "Puzzle" is one of the factors plaguing the development of education, making education more and more politicized, deviated from the education of their own development goals.Regardless of the current elementary school principals operate powers in whatever forms, it is the need to survive in this society. Some are the result of subjective set, some of them are forced to work on, and it is also a reflection of real life to the society. These make us clearly understand social environment and occupational status of the elementary school principal today.This thesis suggests starting from the normative power operation ways, insisting on democracy, balancing rights and responsibilities. Through establishing of the modern school system, the relationship between the government and schools should be reconstructed, the power’s operation of the principal should be regulated. For the principals themselves, they should make full efforts to promote professional development, realizing the transition from management to leadership.