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The assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/43368 The assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management Nieuwenhuis, F.J. malesela4@webmail.co.za Kekana, M.D. School Leadership Professional Educator Development UCTD Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2013. This study explored the assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management in Limpopo Province of South Africa. The study was necessitated by the fact that, although in South Africa, the Department of Basic Education (DoBE) invests so much resources on professional educator development programmes to build capacity among principals, every year a significant number of schools are declared ineffective. The study wanted to establish if the assumptions, values and beliefs of principals could have an influence on school leadership and management. The Cultural Model was used in this study. This was because the model focuses on the values, beliefs and norms of individuals. The model also assumes that values and beliefs of individuals influence how they behave and view the behaviour of others. A narrative research design was used because it allowed the participants to share their life-stories and thus also their assumptions, values and beliefs with the researcher. Through the study, the researcher gained a deeper understanding of the participants with regard to their assumptions, values and beliefs and how they may influence their leadership in schools. For the purpose of this study, the extreme group sampling strategy was used to collect data. A total of six principals became part of this study. Three principals were drawn from effective schools and the other three from ineffective schools. After data analysis, it emerged that principals from effective schools are inner-directed in their approach to life and principals from ineffective schools are outer-directed. This means that the latter group is less assertive and lack self-esteem and do not believe that they can influence or change the situation within the school. This finding, amongst others, informs the authorities to consider introducing pre-principal training before appointing principals into posts. Only the assertive and confident trainees should be given posts. lk2014 Education Management and Policy Studies MEd unrestricted 2015-01-19T12:13:35Z 2015-01-19T12:13:35Z 2014/12/12 2013 Dissertation Kekana, M 2013, The assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43368> M14/9/349 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43368 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | School Leadership Professional Educator Development UCTD The assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management |
| title | The assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management |
| title_full | The assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management |
| title_fullStr | The assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management |
| title_full_unstemmed | The assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management |
| title_short | The assumptions, values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management |
| title_sort | assumptions values and beliefs of principals regarding school leadership and management |
| topic | School Leadership Professional Educator Development UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43368 |