School Principals’ Familiarity with Media Education and its Correlation with Their Use of Social networks in School Administration

Abstract

The current study assessed school principals' familiarity with media education and its correlation with their use of social networks in school administration from the perspective of teachers. A relational descriptive approach was adopted and two tools were used to collect data. The first was an interview conducted with a sample of 20 teachers, and the second was a questionnaire administered to a random sample of (607) teachers working in Zarqa Private Schools in Jordan. The results revealed that school principals’ familiarity with media education was perceived as moderate, and a strong correlation was found between their familiarity with media education and their use of social networks in school administration. 90% of the interviewees agreed that the school principal’s knowledge of media education had a positive impact on school administration through social networking. Given the results, several recommendations are made that will be of value to researchers and workers in this field.
 
 Received: 16 April 2022 / Accepted: 30 June 2022 / Published: 5 July 2022

Organizational communication competence of public secondary school principals through utilizing WhatsApp

“…With the emergence of smart phones and social media, it became a fact that educational administrations need to utilize the media for a better system of communication in an increasingly fast paced world, allowing for limitless span of communication that mirrors the needs of the school's environment. Students, teachers, instructors, and administrators use networks to keep pace with the emerging technologies (Yildirim and Kilic, 2021;Harb and Al-Zou'bi, 2022). Among all other social media, WhatsApp stands as the most suitable and convenient media for instant messaging (Bouhnik and Deshen, 2014;Costa-Sánchez and Guerrero-Pico, 2020).…”