Understanding self-fulfillment: principals’ perspectives in special education for complex disabilities

What is it about?

This study explores how school principals in Israel's special education system for complex disabilities experience self-fulfillment. It focuses on two main questions: 1) How do these principals perceive self-fulfillment in their roles? 2) What examples of self-fulfillment do they share? Researchers interviewed 17 school principals to understand their perspectives. The findings reveal four main ways these principals experience self-fulfillment: through advancing their students, facilitating social change, building inclusive relationships, and seeing their work as a mission and calling. This study is unique because it looks at self-fulfillment specifically in the context of special education, a setting where principals often feel a strong sense of purpose and social importance. This type of self-fulfillment is different from the career-focused fulfillment seen in for-profit organizations.

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