Leder rektorn fritids framåt? : Fritidshemslärarens bild av rektorns ledarskap på fritidshemmet

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study was to investigate how the after-school center teachers experience the principal as the leader of the after-school center. The study is based on a survey that reached out to 60 educated after-school teachers around Sweden. The study addresses three main areas within the principal´s leadership and these are their insight into the after-school center functions, how the principals lead the systematic quality work and how the after-school center teachers think that the principal's functions as a leader for them. The results have been analyzed on the basis of Lars Svedberg´s pedagogical leadership theory and the analysis shows a fragmented picture of the principals leadership. What seem to be synonymous with the principal's pedagogical leadership of the after-school center is knowledge of the subject. The study highlights previous research in the field, concrete examples from the survey and statistics on how the teachers answered the survey.