الهوية المهنية لمديري المدارس و المديرين المساعدين في مدارس التعليم العام بدولة الكويت من وجهة نظرهم

Abstract EN

The aim of the study is to investigate school principals’ and assistant principals' perspectives toward their professional identity in public schools in Kuwait.

It also aims to investigate the existence of statistically significant differences in their perspectives toward their professional identities due to years of experience or position variables.

The study adopted descriptive research methodology through using ’leaders’ professional identity measure that contains four dimensions : educational beliefs, professional social environment, career progress, and professional competencies.

The study instrument was applied to a randomly selected sample of (182) school principals and assistant principals.

The results showed the following : school principals and assistant principals’ perspectives were positive toward their professional identity especially in educational beliefs, and professional social environment dimensions.

While career progress dimension ranked third and professional competencies ranked last according the school principals and assistant principals’ responses.

There are no differences in the sample responses in the dimensions of professional identity according to years of experience variable.

There are differences in the sample responses regarding their professional identity based on position variable for the sake of school principals in three dimensions which are educational beliefs, professional social environment, and career progression.