This study aimed to explore the principal’s perceptions about, and strategies for, increasing students’ active participation in the day-to-day affairs and decision-making at a secondary school located in a rural, mountainous region of Pakistan. By exploring the principal’s leadership practices, this study aims to answer the question, ‘how can school principals promote students’ participation in school leadership and, in turn, how can such participation ultimately lead to a socially just and democratic community?’ To us ‘school leadership’ is not a set of skills or positional authority that lies in one individual – the principal – but it is a practice which is widely distributed and engaged by a range of people including students in the day-to-day affairs and business of the school. Although, students’ participation in curricular and co-curricular activities and decision-making processes in schools is widely studied elsewhere, there is hardly any study on this topic in the context of Pakistan, particularly with reference to rural schools. Therefore, an empirical investigation based on a qualitative case study method was conducted to collect data from the principal as well as from other members of the school community regarding the leadership practices that promote students’ active participation in school affairs. The findings of the study reveal a number of interesting and contextually relevant strategies used by the principal as well as the gaps between his beliefs and practices and the challenges he faces in increasing students’ participation in various activities and decisions at the school.

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校长在巴基斯坦农村山区提高学生参与学校领导力的策略

本研究旨在探讨校长对提高学生积极参与位于巴基斯坦农村山区的一所中学的日常事务和决策制定的看法和策略。通过探索校长的领导实践，本研究旨在回答以下问题：“校长如何促进学生参与学校领导，反过来，这种参与如何最终导致社会公正和民主的社区？” 对我们来说，“学校领导力”不是一套技能或职位权威，只存在于一个人——校长——而是一种广泛传播的实践，包括学生在内的一系列人参与日常事务和学校的业务。虽然，学生在学校参加课程和课外活动以及决策过程的情况在其他地方得到了广泛研究，但在巴基斯坦的背景下，几乎没有关于这个主题的任何研究，尤其是农村学校。因此，进行了基于定性案例研究方法的实证调查，以从校长和学校社区的其他成员那里收集有关促进学生积极参与学校事务的领导实践的数据。研究结果揭示了校长使用的许多有趣且与情境相关的策略，以及他的信念和实践之间的差距，以及他在增加学生参与学校各种活动和决策方面面临的挑战。