Browsing Masters Degrees (Education, Development, Leadership and Management) by Title
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'Leaders as professionals : what does this mean for teachers?' : a case study of five teacher leaders in an urban - primary school in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2011)The aim of this research is to understand the views of teachers regarding professionalism and leadership. As a researcher, I also wanted to investigate whether teachers were given opportunities to lead within a professional ... -
Leadership and management of classrooms with orphans and vulnerable children : a study of three primary schools in Lesotho.
(2011)With introduction of Free Primary Education in Lesotho, teachers are now leading and managing classrooms with increased numbers of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). This study seeks to understand how teachers lead ... -
Leadership and professionalism - an act of faith : a case study of leaders as professionals in South Africa.
(2012)Our South African schools are seventeen years after the advent of democracy still under the grip of predominantly hierarchical management with limited devolution of leadership functions to teachers. Principals and SMT’s ... -
Leadership and professionalism : a case study of five teacher leaders in an urban primary school in Pietermaritzburg.
(2012)The main aim of educational institutions is to ensure that effective teaching and learning is achieved. My personal ontological disposition is that in order to reach this ideal, teacher leadership and professionalism ... -
Leadership characteristics of successful school management teams in township schools.
(2017)In South Africa the right to receive basic education is guaranteed in the Constitution under the Bill of Rights (Republic of South Africa, 1996a). This implies that all learners despite their socio-economic background and ... -
Leadership development of school principals through communities of practice : a case study of one leadership practice community.
(2011)The purpose of this study is to explore the role of Leadership Practice Communities (LPCs) in developing the leadership capacity of school principals. Given the minimal requirements to become a school principal and the ... -
Leadership for inclusive education: a case study of a school management team in an urban primary school.
(2019)This thesis is a presentation of a school management team’s experiences of leadership for inclusive education in an urban primary school in South Africa. The study was guided by three research questions: What are evident ... -
Leadership for learning : a case study of three secondary schools in the Umlazi district of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2017)The role played by the SMT members as leaders in South African schools is crucial due to the indirect impact on learner and school achievement. In this study I explored the following: How SMTs are operationalizing leadership ... -
Leadership for learning : lived experiences of foundation phase heads of department.
(2016)This study explores the experiences of three foundation phase heads of department in respect of leadership for learning from quintile 1, 3 and 5 schools in KwaZulu-Natal. There is scant literature on the study of foundation ... -
Leadership for self management : an investigation into evidence for transformational leadership in a primary school in Durban, South Africa.
(2003)During the apartheid era the South African education system was characterised as being authoritarian, non-consultative and non-participatory. Educational leadership tended to focus on technical and bureaucratic functions ... -
A leadership tale of two school worlds : experiences of principals in fee paying and no fee paying schools.
(2015)There are multiple school categorisations in the South African schooling system. One such categorisation is the fee paying and no fee paying schools. There is a dearth of scholarship on the experiences of principals leading ... -
Leadership, professionalism and unionism : a case study of six teacher leaders.
(2011)The arrival of democracy in 1994 saw the departure of certain policies and an education system that was congruent with an autocratic, apartheid South Africa. One of the many policy changes was the introduction of the Norms ... -
Leading 21st century schools : an exploratory case study of leadership practices adopted by principals in rural context.
(2016)The aim of this study was to explore the daily leadership practices adopted by principals in the rural context within the 21st century. Using the daily leadership practices, the study sought to explore the extent to which ... -
Leading and managing adult basic education and training centres : a comparative case study of two ABET centres in Kwazulu-Natal.
(2007)Background. This study takes you on a journey back in time to the adult education offered to Blacks during the apartheid era in South Africa. It also looked at the events that had lead to the high degree of illiteracy ... -
Leading teaching and learning in an overcrowded classroom: experiences of four teachers in two secondary schools.
(2019)The purpose of this study was to explore teachers’ experiences of leading teaching and learning in complex conditions of overcrowded classrooms. The study was conducted in two secondary schools in King Cetshwayo District. ... -
Leading the change you wish to see in your school : lived experiences of teacher leaders in public and private schools.
(2017)In the quest to improve school leadership there is a growing academic scholarship around the notion of teacher leadership and mobilising the leadership capabilities of teachers. The literature does not, however, seem to ... -
Learner centred pedagogy - an existence of virtual reality? : an investigation into grade three learners' experiences of pedagogy and schooling.
(2006)The rationale and motivation for this study was based on my personal need to try and understand the relationship between theory and practice (praxis) and the normative and empirical variables (hermeneutics) evident ... -
Learner conceptual categorization of food within a developing context.
(2012)This study explored patterns of conceptual knowledge organization using a word association task among Grade 8 learners at an Ex-Model C school. The goal was to show links between conceptual knowledge development and the ... -
Learner experiences of school violence at a secondary school in Lesotho.
(2010)This study explored learner experiences of school violence in a secondary school in Qacha’s Nek, Lesotho. The aim of the study was to understand learners’ experiences of violence as it happens in their school. Internationally, ... -
Learner migration and its impact on rural schools : a case study of two rural schools in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2014)Rural public schools are losing learners who migrate to urban public schools every year. Rural public schools have to mitigate the challenges which are brought about by learner migration. This study seeks to understand the ...