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Exploring the school culture in a township primary school
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/50656 Exploring the school culture in a township primary school Engelbrecht, Alta kgomotso.lebesa@gauteng.gov.za De Jager, Lizette J. Lebesa, Mabel Kgomotso UCTD Negative school culture Low academic achievement Disciplinary problem Attitudes Perceptions and beliefs Principal Teachers Parents Learners Content analysis Critical theory School improvement model Input-process Output model Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-16 Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2015. Educational change in most South African public schools resulted in irregular school attendance by learners; poor performing schools; disputed authority relations between principals, teachers, learners and parents; low morale; general demotivation; conflicts and violence around the school. A negative school culture results in low academic achievement and a high number of disciplinary problems that can result in the malfunctioning of the school. Schools that exhibit a negative school culture experience learners that are unmotivated, unwilling to learn and who demonstrate disruptive behaviour. The study was directed by the following research question: How does school culture impact on the functioning of a township primary school? The attitudes, perceptions and beliefs of the principal, teachers, parents and learners towards the school culture were explored through interviews with the principal and four grade 7 teachers, a focus group discussion with the parents, class observations of one grade 7 class and learners' drawings of the school culture. The transcriptions were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The findings suggest that the learners seem to be the victims in the scenario of this particular school, while all the other stakeholders blame each other and in doing so, add to the negative school culture, rather than trying to improve the school culture in some or other way. tm2015 mi2026 Humanities Education MEd Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2015-11-25T09:47:06Z 2015-11-25T09:47:06Z 2015/09/01 2015 Dissertation Lebesa, MK 2015, Exploring the school culture in a township primary school, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50656> S2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50656 en © 2015 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 | UCTD Negative school culture Low academic achievement Disciplinary problem Attitudes Perceptions and beliefs Principal Teachers Parents Learners Content analysis Critical theory School improvement model Input-process Output model Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-16 Exploring the school culture in a township primary school |
| title | Exploring the school culture in a township primary school |
| title_full | Exploring the school culture in a township primary school |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the school culture in a township primary school |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the school culture in a township primary school |
| title_short | Exploring the school culture in a township primary school |
| title_sort | exploring the school culture in a township primary school |
| topic | UCTD Negative school culture Low academic achievement Disciplinary problem Attitudes Perceptions and beliefs Principal Teachers Parents Learners Content analysis Critical theory School improvement model Input-process Output model Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-16 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50656 |