THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD’S EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

The aim of this study is to determine the importance given to education, the Prophet Muhammad's philosophy of education, behaviours of management and features of educational leadership. The Prophet Muhammad's educational understanding, his personality and views as a human and a prophet, the characteristics he had as a teacher, the importance he gave to education and training and also the behaviours of management have been tried to be determined. In this study, the document examining method has been used with the qualitative research. The study consists of the Holy Koran, the Hadis books and other Works in the context. Collecting the datas related to this study has been done with the document examining method. The analysis of the datas acquired has been taken place with the technique of the descriptive analyze. The Prophet Muhammad has signified that education-teaching and science are very important and has added the necessity of being learned information in the name of humanity and transferring the information to the real life. The necessity of using mind, acting according to the principle of merit and to give people responsibility and work in proportion of their abilities and the priority of love and mercy in educational leadership has emerged.