An analytical study of the cultural diversity of secondary school principals from the viewpoint of physical education teachers

Abstract

The importance of the research lies in identifying the level of cultural diversity enjoyed by secondary school principals and its importance to physical education teachers and their effective and basic role in the school environment and the role of the school principal in creating an atmosphere of creativity, distinction and love of cooperation between teachers in secondary schools. Some references and previous studies related to the subject of the research have recently noticed a decline in the performance of physical education teachers and in curricular and extra-curricular sports activities by following up on sports activities in schools, because one of the researchers is a specialized supervisor in the Ministry of Education, and their work is no longer as active and influential in the totality of sports activities and events and highlighting the impact of school sports, so the two researchers decided to study the cultural diversity of secondary school principals who enjoy their administrative decisions in managing sports and school activities and their role in understanding cultural diversity that leads to avoiding problems in order to maintain the development of sports activities and evaluate the efforts of physical education teachers in a correct way, there is no doubt that paying attention to the concept of cultural diversity in institutions is a necessary requirement in light of the trend towards adopting modern administrative concepts, and bypassing all methods that adopt orders and traditional management, and whenever that would cause discrimination between teachers and a violation of work ethics such as lack of justice in management or the bias and inclinations of some workers at the expense of others with different cultures. Cultural diversity leads to an increase in the functional creativity of physical education teachers, and thus the ability to face the challenges and crises of the era and to preserve sports activities and their effective role in the educational environment. The two researchers aimed to build a measure of cultural diversity for physical education teachers in secondary schools from the point of view of teachers of physical education, as well as identifying the measure of cultural diversity among secondary school principals from the point of view of teachers of physical education, The two researchers used the descriptive method in the survey method in building a measure of the cultural diversity of school principals and identifying the research community, who are teachers of physical education in (General Directorates of Baghdad Al-Karkh Governorate (1,2,3), through a statistic obtained of (998) teachers distributed among (3) directorates in the province of Baghdad, and the sample was selected in a simple random way, as the building sample amounted to (400 teachers) with a rate of (40.08%) from the total community, while the application sample amounted to (400 teachers) with a rate of (40.08%) ) from the whole society, and for the purpose of determining the areas of the (cultural diversity) scale, the two researchers read many previous literature and references related to the subject of the research (sports management), and after presenting them to experts and specialists, the number of areas became (5) for the measure of cultural diversity, namely (1- Values cultural, 2- work challenges, 3- social normalization, 4- outstanding performance, 5- organizational experiences), and (35) paragraphs were formulated to measure the degree of cultural diversity for secondary school principals distributed over 7 paragraphs for each field, and after completing the building procedures and foundations, the results were classified and treated statistically, then the results were presented and discussed in a scientific manner based on the scientific sources of the research, and through this we reached the achievement of the research objectives, and the two researchers concluded: The sample members are characterized by a degree of cultural diversity. This indicates that interest in the concept of cultural diversity in educational and non-educational institutions is a necessary prerequisite for achieving success in them. The two researchers recommended: making use of the cultural diversity scale, which the researchers built and applied to detect the cultural diversity of secondary school principals, and the development of awareness among school principals of the value of diversity and cultural difference and its importance as a factor of strength and added value, as it is well employed and built on it