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teachers expressed their views on the need for organizing periodic meetings to increase collaboration with old generation teachers. These percentages show differences between the views of school directors and teachers. We can suggest that school directors should organize more periodic meetings to increase collaboration between old and new generation teachers and help them take responsibility together. 50% of school directors and 30% of teachers expressed their views on the theme regarding university lecturers coming and offering in-service courses to increase collaboration between old generation and new generation teachers. It can be said that there are differences in the views of school directors and teacher regarding this view. As for the reason of this difference in views, we can suggest more collaboration with new generation

teachers and taking courses from universities to reduce the gap between generations.

**4.4. Dimension: the contribution of efficient use of technology by school directors to** 

school director not frequently using the Internet or the social networking sites.

School culture plays a great role to foster exchanging of information. In addition, exchanging of information is required for enhancing collaboration in order to establish a common sense in respect to strategic implications. Mutual understanding among working staff, paying attention to values and roles among working team provide a great insight to foster the realities of intergenerational collaboration. In this respect, tolerance education plays an important factor to diffuse school development. Integration of technology and apply the merits of technology for the school development is crucial to understand the nature of intergenerational collaboration and understand collegiality among teachers and directors. As this study sheds a light to use of internet and social networking and intergenerational collaboration, it also gives impor-

Participants were asked to express their views to help determine the contribution of efficient use of technology by school directors to intergenerational cooperation. 20% of rural area school directors and 66% of teachers expressed their views on the theme of getting old generation teachers closer to technology by cooperating with parent-teacher associations, MoE, universities and new generation; and reinforcing relations with young generations. These percentages show differences in the views of school directors and teachers. This difference shows that school directors are not able to make old generation teacher get closer to technology. In this regard, we can suggest rural area school directors to form collaborative relations with parent-teacher associations, MoE and universities to help old generation teachers get closer to technology. 30% of school directors and 22% of teachers expressed their views regarding the theme of video recording the events and sharing them on social networking sites via Internet to increase intergenerational collaboration and reduce problems experienced between generations. It can be said that the views of school directors differ from teachers' views within the scope of this theme. We can say that the reason for this difference can be not video recording and rarely sharing them on social networking sites all types of events organized in school and

**intergenerational cooperation**

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**5. Discussions**

tance to transformational leadership [30].

Umut Akcil<sup>1</sup> \*, Zehra Altinay<sup>1</sup> , Fahriye Altinay<sup>1</sup> , Gokmen Dagli<sup>1</sup> and Mehmet Altinay<sup>2</sup>

\*Address all correspondence to: u.akcil@neu.edu.tr

1 Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus

2 University of Kyrenia, Kyrenia, Cyprus
