Conditions, Needs, and Guidelines for Developing the Strategic Leadership in the 21st Century for the School Administrators under Sakon Nakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office 3

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the current and desirable conditions, 2) to evaluate the needs, and 3) to develop guidelines for developing the strategic leadership in the 21st century for the school administrators under Sakon Nakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office 3. The samples used in the research were 155 school administrators randomized by stratified sampling. The sample size was determined by using Krejcie and Morgan’s Table. The research instruments consisted of four forms: (1) a questionnaire asking for the current conditions of the strategic leadership in the 21st century of the school administrators with the index of the item discrimination between .75-.94 and the reliability of .99, (2) a questionnaire asking for the desirable conditions of the strategic leadership in the 21st century of the school administrators with index of the item discrimination between .83-.95 and the reliability of the whole questionnaire of .99, (3) a structured-interview form, and (4) an evaluation form used to evaluate the appropriateness and the possibility of the guidelines for developing the strategic leadership in the 21st century of thbe school administrators. All of the four forms of the research instruments had the Index of Item Objective Congruence: IOC of 1.00 in every item and form. The statistics used were mean, standard deviation, and Priority Needs Index Modified (PNI_Modified). The research findings were as follows. 1. The current conditions of the strategic leadership in the 21st century of the school  administrators in the overall were at a high level. The desirable conditions of the strategic leadership in the 21st century of the school administrators in the overall were at the highest level.    2. The findings of the evaluation of the needs for developing the strategic leadership in the 21st century of the school administrators showed that the values of the aspects that were higher than the overall value and were organized from the highest to the lowest values were vision, ethics, and creativity.  3. The guidelines for developing the strategic leaderships in the 21st century of the school administrators were that in the vision, the school administrators should have the vision in administrating the schools, plan the operation to cover all activities, and bring the vision regulated to use in driving the operation to achieve the targets, in the ethics, the schools administrators should be honest and focus on the public benefits more than the personal benefits, perform with morality, and be good models for their staff, and in the creativity, the school administrators should have creative thinking to use in administrating education, accept the new ideas from people in the new generation, and bring the new ideas to use in the new administration related to the current situations. The findings of the evaluation showed that the development guidelines in the overall were appropriate at the highest level and possible at a high level.