A comparision of administrative processes in public schools and minority schools

Recently, due the impact of several reasons, the number of studies in the field of educational administration has been in Turkey. Yet, the number of researches studying minority schools in terms of administrative processes is almost none. This study aims to fill this gap. The aim of this study is to investigate comparatively the practises of administrative process in public schools and minority schools. As a qualitative and phenomenological study, the research conducted seven in-depth interviews by using semi-structured formwith eight school principles to compare administrative processes in a public school and a minority (Armenian) school and discusses its results in terms of its implications. According to findings of the study, there is not much difference between two school types in terms of administrative processes and schools are similar to each other. This result indicates that there is the need for the field of educational administration to develop as a separate disciplinary field. Yet, it has been also found that minority schools are relatively successful in establishing an administrative structure, which is considered as a result of the autonomous status of these schools. This study recommends that schools should be run locally, by schools themselves, instead of a centralized bureaucratic structure. Keywords: Educational Administration, Administrative Processes, Public Schools, Minority Schools, Qualitative Research