Leadership styles, public relation skills and school-community collaboration: A quantitative analysis of the perception of stakeholders

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This analysis examined the collaboration between schools and host communities using the leadership styles of principals and public rela- tions skills as independent variables. As noted, and reported in the literature, the research was motivated by the conflicting links and alienative partnerships between schools and communities. The research followed a quantitative approach with an emphasis on the descriptive survey architecture. The study targeted a population of 667 school administrators; however, data was obtained from 583 second- ary school managers who participated voluntarily. A questionnaire was used for data acquisition, with a Cronbach's reliability index of .84. Key findings showed that the adoption of leadership styles generally and particularly in terms of the bureaucratic, coaching, democratic, ser- vant-oriented and visionary styles was high; the autocratic, laissez-faire, transactional and transformational styles were adopted to a low degree, whereas the strategic leadership style was adopted averagely; the extent of principals' public relations skills, as well as school- community collaboration (SCC) was low; the degree of SCC did not depend significantly on the leadership styles adopted, but on the public relations expertise of principals. Based on these results, impor- tant theoretical and policy implications for effective practices in educa- tional management are discussed

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