Roles of Physical, Pedagogical Environment and Leadership Practices toward Humanizing Education: Teachers’ Views

Abstract

It is considered that modern education is designed to shape students like lifeless physical objects. It is also accepted that the art of teaching as filling students with knowledge like filling a bottle from a tap. Ultimately, this kind of education ignores basic human values and solidarity among them, whereas students need to determine their own ways in their nature. In this respect, during educational
practices; physical, pedagogical environment and leadership practices may play important roles to settle values among students. Therefore, this qualitative study purposed to explore teachers’ views on roles of physical and pedagogical environment and administrators’ leadership practices toward humanizing education. Results revealed that physical and pedagogical learning environments were not designed to make educational processes more humanized. Also, administrators’ leadership practices do not serve education to become more humanized. It is recommended that while designing and managing educational processes, human factor should be in the center.