Presentation of innovation management model in primary schools of Ahvaz city

Subject Areas : Educational management

leila bahmaei ¹ , mahmoud rahimi ² , gholam hossein barekat ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Elementary Education Department, Omidiyeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Omidiyeh, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Elementary Education Department, Omidiyeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Omidiyeh, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Management, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

Received: 2023-01-17 Accepted : 2023-07-18 Published : 2023-05-22

Keywords: management, Innovation, Elementary schools,

Abstract :

The current research is classified as an exploratory mixed research in terms of its practical purpose and in terms of how to collect the required data. The statistical community in the qualitative phase of the current research were experts and experts who were selected using the purposeful sampling method and the snowball method. The statistical population in the quantitative stage included 300 educational managers and working teachers, which was used to select the real sample using the proportional stratified random method. The research tool in the qualitative part was semi-structured interviews with experts and opinion leaders related to the research topic. In the qualitative part, the three-stage coding method of Strauss and Corbin (1998) under the title of open, central, and selective coding was used for analysis. And in the quantitative section, SPSS 20 and LESREL software and structural-interpretive equation tests were used to investigate the development of the innovation management model in the elementary schools of Ahvaz city, but before that, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to explain the distribution of population. The results showed that all effective factors are causal (9 categories and impact rate -66), contextual (13 categories and impact rate -58), interventional (12 categories and impact rate -53), strategic (16 categories and impact rate -69) and the consequences (9 categories and the impact rate of -59) of the innovation management model identified in this research are among the effective factors in innovation. Also, the impact of innovation management model factors has been calculated as -76%.