The role of administrative leaders in Strength en digital citizenship practices among administrators according to the ethical leadership approach (A field study at the Faculty of Education - Alexandria University

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1 Lecturer, Department of Educational Administration and Education Policies - Faculty of Education - Alexandria University

2 Lecturer at the Department of Fundamentals of Education - Faculty of Education - Alexandria University

Abstract

 
The current research aims to determine the degree to which administrative leaders enhance the practices of digital citizenship among administrators, and the role that the ethical leadership approach plays in enhancing administrative leaderships of digital citizenship practices among administrators at the Faculty of Education, University of Alexandria, and to identify the extent to which there are statistically significant differences in the degree of verification of the practice of areas Digital Citizenship, Faculty of Education, Alexandria University; Which may be attributed to the variable (gender - academic qualification - number of years of service - number of training courses), and then arriving at a set of procedural proposals necessary to activate the role of ethical leadership; to enhancing digital citizenship among administrators at the Faculty of Education, Alexandria University.
The questionnaire, in its final form, consisted of (38) phrases distributed over four main areas of digital citizenship, which are represented in the fields (digital education, digital participation, digital ethics, and electronic protection), and the number of questionnaires valid for analysis was (144).
The most important findings of the research indicated:
1- The reality of the availability of practicing the dimensions of digital citizenship from the point of view of administrators at the Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, came with an average rating, and got of (57.00%).
2- There are no differences between the averages of the responses of the research sample members on the practices of the areas of digital citizenship, according to the difference in the gender variable.
3- There are statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.05 only in the dimensions of digital law, digital health and safety in favor of administrators who have a high qualification.
4- There are no differences between the averages of the responses of the members of the research sample on the areas of digital citizenship, according to the difference in the number of years of experience variable.
5- There are differences between the averages of the responses of the members of the research sample to the practices of the areas of digital citizenship according to the difference in the number of training courses in favor of the holder of 3 training courses.

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