THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEARNING SCHOOL AND SCHOOL HAPPINESS

Sarp Uğur, Rezzan Uçar

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The aim of this study is to reveal relationship between learning school and school happiness according to views of teachers who study at state schools. It is a kind of predictive study which is designed with the correlational (relational) scanning model that is one of the quantitative research methods. Teachers who study at state schools in Erciş in Van during 2017-2018 academic year create population of research and 371 teachers who are chosen from this population with simple and random sampling method create sample of the research. Research data was collected with Learning School Perception Scale taken from Güçlü and Türkoğlu (2003), and Organizational Happiness Scale taken from Paschoal and Tamayo (2008) and adapted to Turkish by Arslan and Polat (2007). Arithmetic average, correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to analyze data. At the result of the research, it was concluded that the quality of being learning school is at 'medium' level and school happiness is at a 'good' level, there is a positive and meaningful relationship at medium level between school happiness and school and the vision, shared by sub-dimensions of learning school, mental models and team learning are meaningful predictors for school happiness of teachers.

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