The approaches of educators to strategic planning in education management: A case of Bahçelievler District

The globalization has caused changes in public administration as many areas. In this context, the understanding of public administration has changed, new public management approach has come. Strategic planning is one of the leading managerial techniques in the process. Strategic management is one of the concepts that gained importance in the management sciences in recent years and began to be applied in the public sector in the course of time as well, after being applied in the private sector and it played a key role in the restructuring of the public sector in many countries. Strategic management concept has gained importance in the Turkish public sector in parallel to the developments in the world as well and has began to be applied by the public sector. In this study, strategic planning and management approach are discussed in terms of public education services. Strategic Planning Applications in public schools are required by law. Therefore, it is important to research perception of strategic planning and strategic planning practices in public schools. The aim of the study is to measure the perception of strategic planning in public schools of Bahçelievler district. In the study, Strategic Planning Perception surveys were carried out.In the results of the analysis of the obtained findings from the survey, it has identified that educators have low levels of strategic perception and the perception of differences in strategic planning according to demographic and occupational properties.