Educational leadership in education development centers: A qualitative study

BACKGROUND: Education development centers (EDCs) have a vital role in improving the quality of medical education. This study was conducted with the aim of discovering educational leadership characteristics in EDCs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was carried out with a qualitative approach and usi...

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Main Authors: Mansoureh Taghavinia, Mohammad Reza Maleki, Kamran Soltani Arabshahi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Education and Health Promotion
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Online Access:http://www.jehp.net/article.asp?issn=2277-9531;year=2021;volume=10;issue=1;spage=46;epage=46;aulast=Taghavinia
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Mohammad Reza Maleki
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description BACKGROUND: Education development centers (EDCs) have a vital role in improving the quality of medical education. This study was conducted with the aim of discovering educational leadership characteristics in EDCs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was carried out with a qualitative approach and using a conventional content analysis method. The sampling was purposive. Twenty-four faculty members, managers, and experts of EDCs in the universities of medical sciences included 13 males and 11 females participated in this study. Semi-structured interviews were utilized for data collection. The conventional content analysis approach was utilized to analyze the data. RESULTS: From the data analysis, two categories included “personality characteristics” and “job characteristics” and six subcategories included reliabilism, humanness and altruism, accountability, decisiveness, dynamism and perfectionism, and knowledge, experience, and expertise and 24 codes were extracted. CONCLUSION: Results obtained in the present study will help to increase the awareness of the educational leaders of the EDCs in improving their personality and job skills and this will lead to the qualitative development of educational leadership.
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spelling doaj.art-f22c80fa0a3a402aa4025171e85b64242022-12-21T20:28:52ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Education and Health Promotion2277-95312021-01-01101464610.4103/jehp.jehp_733_20Educational leadership in education development centers: A qualitative studyMansoureh TaghaviniaMohammad Reza MalekiKamran Soltani ArabshahiBACKGROUND: Education development centers (EDCs) have a vital role in improving the quality of medical education. This study was conducted with the aim of discovering educational leadership characteristics in EDCs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was carried out with a qualitative approach and using a conventional content analysis method. The sampling was purposive. Twenty-four faculty members, managers, and experts of EDCs in the universities of medical sciences included 13 males and 11 females participated in this study. Semi-structured interviews were utilized for data collection. The conventional content analysis approach was utilized to analyze the data. RESULTS: From the data analysis, two categories included “personality characteristics” and “job characteristics” and six subcategories included reliabilism, humanness and altruism, accountability, decisiveness, dynamism and perfectionism, and knowledge, experience, and expertise and 24 codes were extracted. CONCLUSION: Results obtained in the present study will help to increase the awareness of the educational leaders of the EDCs in improving their personality and job skills and this will lead to the qualitative development of educational leadership.http://www.jehp.net/article.asp?issn=2277-9531;year=2021;volume=10;issue=1;spage=46;epage=46;aulast=Taghaviniacharacteristicseducation development centerseducational leadership
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