Education Administrators in Newspapers

The purpose of this study is to examine the news about education administrators in the print media between 1st September and 31st December 2017 in the daily press. The sample of the study is a newspaper with the highest circulation in the mass media. In this research that was designed as a qualitative study document analysis method was used and the data were analysed with content analysis technique. The data of the research were analysed under positive reflection of the educational administrations and negative themes, which are reflected in the newspaper about education administrators. 46 of 65 newspaper news stories about education administrators are positive and 19 are negative news. According to the research data, the majority of the positive news reflected to the print media about education administrators are the news of educational projects. Positive news focus on supervision, meeting, implementation of projects, school safety, school development, and social activity. Negative news focus on violence, sexual abuse, punishment, mobbing and complaints. This study shows that all the studies on behalf of education in which education administrators are involved are reflected in the newspapers as positive news. It can be said that the negative news reflected in the newspapers about educational administrators are sexual abuse, harassment, violence against students and teachers, and mobbing. As education administrators are exemplary to the society, the issues such as beating the student, insulting someone, labeling the student in some way and and punishing them in a way that does not comply with ethical behaviors are reflected to the press negatively.

Keywords

Educational Admisitration, Education Administrator, News Reports, Ethical Behavior, Ethics in Education.