A Proposal for activating the Role of the Junior Principal to Modify the Culture of the Technical Secondary School in Egypt in the Light of the Experiences of Some Countries

    The skilled, trained, educated technical labour have become scarce in labour market. Therefore; the developed countries have ascertained the importance of the technical secondary school's role in their educational and instructional systems contributing to prepare such labour. Once the junior principal starts work as a school administrator, s/he is keen to modify the school culture and make it supportive for achieving the desired school goals. This is in view of the fact that the modification of the school culture serves as the indispensable approach for providing appropriate school environment that unites visions, beliefs, ideas, behaviors, attitudes, values of work, rituals and traditions adopted by the school's work team and been in favor of the educational and instructional process inside the school. So, attention is directed to the junior principal on the basis that the junior principal is the first responsible for modifying the culture of his/her technical secondary school. Thus, the research aimed to identify the theoretical and intellectual frameworks of the technical secondary school in the light of the contemporary educational literature and to highlight the current situation of the junior principal's role for modifying the technical secondary school culture in Egypt in the light of the experiences of some countries such as: Sweden, China, and Finland, and develop a proposal to activate the role of the junior principal for modifying the technical secondary school's culture in Egypt in the light of the experiences of some countries such as Sweden, China and Finland in convenience with the special culture and the privacy of the Egyptian society.