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The role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the Eastern Cape
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/76717 The role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the Eastern Cape Sehoole, Molatlhegi Trevor Chika nomondemhaga@webmail.co.za Eberlein, Eric Mhaga, Nomonde UCTD Transformational leadership practice school success Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-05 Education theses SDG-08 Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2019. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in two rural secondary schools in the Eastern Cape. The poor performance of the Eastern Cape in National Senior Certificate examinations is well documented in media press and in academic publications. Yet, there are schools that, although they share much of the context and culture of other schools within the Province, perform surprisingly well. Little is known about whether such successes could be attributed to transformational leadership. As such, this study investigated the practice of transformational leadership behaviours, challenges faced by transformational leaders, strategies they engaged in to overcome challenges and successes of such transformational leadership on increased learner achievement. Case study research design was used involving semi-structured interviews to collect data from a sample of two principals and three members of the Senior Management Team. The selection of the two secondary schools was based on their rural context, poor quintile category, evidence of improvement and continued high levels of learner achievement in the National Senior Certificate examinations in the past five years. The findings have shown that the principal of the first school, after engaging in transformative strategies aimed at improvement, managed to turn itself around. On the other hand, for the second principal, no findings showed that the school had, in the past experienced poor performance, despite being rural and servicing learners coming from poor socio-economic conditions. Rather, it has a history of being a well- performing school and it was shown that the principal has managed to sustain such successes in the period under study. For future research, quantitative studies and observations could provide results for generalization to the entire region. It is time for principals committed to turning around a low-performing school to give priority to teacher growth and professional development. bs2026 Education Management and Policy Studies MEd Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-05: Gender equality SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth 2020-11-04T15:09:41Z 2020-11-04T15:09:41Z 2020/05/08 2019 Dissertation Mhaga, N 2019, The role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the Eastern Cape, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76717> A2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76717 en © 2020 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 Transformational leadership practice school success Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-05 Education theses SDG-08 The role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the Eastern Cape |
| title | The role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the Eastern Cape |
| title_full | The role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the Eastern Cape |
| title_fullStr | The role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the Eastern Cape |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the Eastern Cape |
| title_short | The role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the Eastern Cape |
| title_sort | role of transformational leadership in well performing schools in the eastern cape |
| topic | UCTD Transformational leadership practice school success Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-05 Education theses SDG-08 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76717 |