- Title
- The role that principals play in the functionality of South African Schools: A case study
- Creator
- Mahlathi, Mcebisi
- Subject
- Educational Leadership and Development
- Date Issued
- 2023-00
- Date
- 2023-00
- Type
- Masters theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/10501
- Identifier
- vital:75185
- Description
- The aim of the study was to explore the roles that principals play in the functionality of the South African schools. The Instructional Leadership Theory was used, and a case study design was followed. Detailed individual and group discussions were done to get rich data from 5 participants from 5 purposively carefully chosen high schools. Through thematic analysis of the interviews, three major findings emerged. One of the key findings was that school principals in this study relied overwhelmingly on the old knowledge they acquired from their junior degrees, and from observations, to lead the schools. As such, there was a leadership gap in their daily execution of roles. This study concludes that school principals are not as capacitated and well developed to perform their everyday roles in South African schools. It was recommended that the Department of Education offer on-going development plans to up-skill the school principals so that they can be professional and administratively ready for their roles.
- Description
- Thesis (Masters) -- Faculty of Education, 2023
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (125 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Walter Sisulu University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Faculty of Education
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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