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Heads of departments experiences of school mergers in North West province
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/80486 Heads of departments experiences of school mergers in North West province Nthontho, Maitumeleng u27627137@tuks.co.za Mpiwa, Maritshi Peter UCTD School merger primary school middle school secondary school Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-17 Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria 2020. Although there has been much research on school mergers, there has not been a strong focus on the way in which heads of departments (hereafter HoDs) in the North West province experience school mergers. This qualitative case study, which used an interpretative paradigm, built on and contributed to understanding successful strategies used by displaced HoDs from middle to primary or secondary schools in performing their roles and responsibilities after the school mergers, the challenges they experienced and how they approached such challenges. Semi-structured interviews and a document analysis with purposive sampling of nine (9) participants, comprising six (6) female HoDs and six (3) male HoDs, were used to collect the requisite data. The study was underpinned by a conceptual framework, to identify and construct my views as a researcher, on the HoDs experiences of school mergers in North West province (Adom, Hussein & Agyem, 2018) as a lens for data analysis. The study findings indicated that there had been a significant change in the roles and responsibilities performed by the displaced HoDs. The HoDs had also demonstrated resistance to the school mergers as they had not been prepared for handling tensions and opposition (Pinheiro, Geschwind & Aarrevaara, 2016). It was also found that the HoDs had different understandings and interpretations of the concept of a school merger, and that the NWDoE had undermined them and had also not prepared them adequately enough for both the school merged and to cope in their new roles. The findings also indicated that the NWDoE had done very little to involve the HoDs in the entire school merger process. In addition, the findings also revealed that generally teaching and administering curriculum was a challenge for some of the expatriate HoDs due content gap in the subject areas allocated to them in their new roles. Accordingly, the study pointed out the need for retraining and workshopping the displaced HoDs, as well as placement in line with their areas of specialisation and proficiency. It was hoped that this might help them to handle the tensions they were experiencing and to decrease their opposition, diminish their resistance and, finally, assist them in performing their hugely changed roles and responsibilities in their new schools. bs2026 Education Management and Policy Studies MEd Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals 2021-06-22T12:29:16Z 2021-06-22T12:29:16Z 2021/05/07 2020 Dissertation Mpiwa, MP 2020, Heads of departments experiences of school mergers in North West province, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80486> A2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80486 en © 2021 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 School merger primary school middle school secondary school Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-17 Heads of departments experiences of school mergers in North West province |
| title | Heads of departments experiences of school mergers in North West province |
| title_full | Heads of departments experiences of school mergers in North West province |
| title_fullStr | Heads of departments experiences of school mergers in North West province |
| title_full_unstemmed | Heads of departments experiences of school mergers in North West province |
| title_short | Heads of departments experiences of school mergers in North West province |
| title_sort | heads of departments experiences of school mergers in north west province |
| topic | UCTD School merger primary school middle school secondary school Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-17 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80486 |