Bereit für Veränderungen? – Zum Zusammenhang von Akzeptanz und handlungsbezogener Auseinandersetzung von Schulleiterinnen und Schulleitern in Reformprozessen

In the context of implementing comprehensive school reforms, participants’ perceptions are seen as crucial as their dealing with these processes. Principals play a key role in this regard. A comprehensive school reform presents the background to an analysis (N = 196 principals were surveyed) of the connection between principals’ attitudes to this reform, and their actually dealing with it. On the one hand, scales were used to model the principals’ assessments and expectations. Furthermore, based on the Stages of Concern Questionnaire (Hall & Hord, 2011), the dealing with the reform were moreover assessed. The study revealed that principals who principally had a positive attitude to the reform more actively dealt with it.