Ethi̇cal leadershi̇p behaviours of school principals

The aim of this research is to determine the ethical leadership of school administrators. In this research, the population consists of nursery classes being subject to Afyonkarahisar Provincial Directorate for National Education and 120 preschool teachers working at independent nursery schools and 80 administrators working at those schools. The research has been carried out by sampling out of this population. The 'Ethical Leadership Scale', practised by Turhan (2007) has been used in this research. Frequencies, percentages, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, the Mann Whitney-U test and Kruskal Wallis test have been used in the analyses of data. According to the results of the research, teachers who participate in this study think that the school administrators perform the ethical leadership behaviour in high levels. It has also been specified that the perceptions of performing the ethical leadership behaviour do not differ according to the sex, educational status and marital status of the school administrators. It has been inferred that the administrators at the age of 46 and over perform the ethical leadership behaviour about social responsibilities better than the administrators at the age of 26 or 35. It has been confirmed that the perceptions of teachers about the ethical leadership behaviour of administrators do not differ according to the schools they are working at, those working at the independent government schools have the perception that school administrators perform the ethical leadership behaviours much more than the other teachers. Key Words: Ethical Leadership, Preschool Teacher, School Administrators