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The study aimed at identifying the extent to which private school principals apply democratic leadership in Ain Al-Basha district and its relationship to motivating teachers from their point of view. The sample of the study was selected using the simple random sample method, and the research adopted the descriptive analytical method. The study sample was (270) teachers who work in the private schools in the Directorate of Education of Ain Al-Basha district in Al-Balqa' governorate for the academic year (2021-2022). The results of the research showed that all field, in terms of the degree of applying democratic leadership by private school principals in Ain Al-Basha district, and its relationship to motivating teachers from their point of view, obtained medium degrees except for material incentives, which were low. The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences due to the effect of gender and experience on the degree of democratic leadership application among private school principals in Ain Al-Basha District. And there was a positive, statistically significant correlation between Democratic leadership and motivating teachers among private school principals in Ain Al-Basha district. The arithmetic average of the degree of application of democratic leadership among the principals of private schools in Ain Al-Basha District from the point of view of teachers, as a whole, amounted to (3.47) and with an average degree, and that the values of the arithmetic averages ranged between (3.47-3.57), where human relations came in first place with the highest arithmetic average of (3.57), and participation in decision-making came in last place with an arithmetic average of (3.38). The results indicated that the arithmetic average of the degree of motivation of private school principals in the Ain Al-Basha Brigade for teachers from the point of view of the teachers themselves amounted to (2.49) and with an average degree as a whole, where social incentives came in first place with the highest arithmetic average of (2.90), and with an average degree, while material incentives came in last place with an arithmetic average of (1.99), with a low score. The researcher recommended to encourage principals to apply the democratic leadership style because of its great impact on raising the morale of teachers and improving the educational process, also it recommended the need to pay attention to the application of incentives of all kinds and to provide more material incentives to push teachers to make more efforts to achieve the desired goals.
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Sarrar, S. K. A., & Adaileh, A. A. A. A. Al. (2024). Democratic Leadership of Private School Principals in Ain Al-Basha District and its Relationship to Motivating Teachers from their Point of View. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 13(3), 538–551.
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