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Reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in Mpumalanga
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/60984 Reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in Mpumalanga Sehoole, Molatlhegi Trevor Chika u28577044@tuks.co.za Thambekwayo, Musa Absalon UCTD Educational Leadership Experiences Experiential Learning Reflection Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the learning experiences of mentors and mentees in their mentoring relationships were reflective of Kolb's experiential learning cycle. The researcher interviewed five mentors and five principals who participated in the mentoring programme as encapsulated in the ACE School Leadership programme at the University of Pretoria. The principals were selected from the Nkangala education district of Mpumalanga province. Research questions covered the four modes of Kolb's experiential learning cycle: (i) Concrete Experience, (ii) Reflective Observation, (iii) Abstract Conceptualisation, and (iv) Active Experimentation. The participants were required to describe their experiences in the mentoring programme and their anticipated future mentorship practices within their schools. Participants described the reflective processes they engaged in and the skills and knowledge gained, as well as their interpretation of the mentoring phenomenon. The participants' responses were subsequently analysed to determine the extent to which their learning experiences were reflective of the experiential learning cycle as presented by Kolb (1984). The study confirmed the participants' learning as reflective of Kolb's experiential learning cycle. The outcomes confirmed mentoring as a vital tool for enhancing principals' leadership and management knowledge and skills in order to, in turn, develop their schools as effective learning institutions. The mentoring programme not only contributed towards school improvement, but also gave a huge boost to the principals' personal and professional development. Moreover, the mentors in the programme were instrumental in helping principals to become reflective practitioners as anticipated in the Department of Education's National Policy Framework for Teacher Education and Development in South Africa (2007). During this research it was discovered that the programme was not without its challenges, however. Mentor selection was found to contain serious flaws. Moreover, the principals selected for the programme were not fully informed of the reasons for their selection to the programme; the only information they were in possession of in this regard was centred on the academic aspect of the qualification, which meant that this was what they focused on. Education Management and Policy Studies PhD Unrestricted 2017-06-08T13:07:12Z 2017-06-08T13:07:12Z 2017-05-09 2016 Thesis Thambekwayo, MA 2016, Reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in Mpumalanga, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60984> A2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60984 en © 2017 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 Educational Leadership Experiences Experiential Learning Reflection Reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in Mpumalanga |
| title | Reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in Mpumalanga |
| title_full | Reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in Mpumalanga |
| title_fullStr | Reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in Mpumalanga |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in Mpumalanga |
| title_short | Reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in Mpumalanga |
| title_sort | reflecting on experience in educational leadership development through mentorship in mpumalanga |
| topic | UCTD Educational Leadership Experiences Experiential Learning Reflection |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60984 |