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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"School Development"”.
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An Inquiry into the Theory of Action of School Development Planning constituted within the Professional Culture of the School Development Planning Initiative 1999-2010
… qualitative inquiry into the theory of action of school development planning (SDP) constituted within the professional culture of the School Development Planning Initiative (SDPI). SDP is delineated as an historically contingent term of art most influential in scholarly and policy discourse under …
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School management and governance in relation to whole school development
… and management of holistic changes in schools across South Africa have positioned principals in the unprecedented occupational position of transformational leaders who are accountable for renewing schools in accordance with national policy mandates, provincial proclamations and regional …
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School development through partnership in education with parents as community members
… inequality and segregation. The perspective on school development through partnership in education with parents as a community changed after the democratization of S.A in 1994. Previously in 1984, parents were not fully involved in the education system. After 1994 election the culture of …
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An Investigation of the Principal's Communication in the Comer School Development Model
… demands that are forcing changes in school practices. In the age of school reform, the principal of the twenty-first century must provide the structure; resources and support that schools need to succeed. Research indicated that successful school leadership makes important …
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Transforming leadership: a case study of the dynamic nature of educational leadership and school development
The aim of this research has been to analyse school leadership processes during a period of significant change and development. The methodologies used were characterised by a naturalistic and interpretive forms of enquiry as I sought to determine the way in which the individual responded to, …
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Teachers' perceptions of the essential features of whole school development / organisation : towards a model for intervention
… teachers' perceptions of the elements of whole school development and the extent to which certain essential features of such development are associated with school effectiveness. The study aims at determining the extent to which school effectiveness is associated with the following four elements …
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Strategy, culture and school development planning: a case study of staff perspectives in a secondary school
… of staff and governors in the secondary school where the researcher works as deputy head. The focus of the inquiry is school development planning and its relationship to wider strategic planning. The study further explores the School's culture and organisational structure in order to …
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Examining the effect of school development loans on education capacity and quality: evidence from Ghana and Uganda
… is to meet its ambitious targets on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4: Quality Education. There are 258 million school aged children out of school, of which 98 million are in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Low-income countries are experiencing dramatic growth in their populations and have severe …
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Exploring strategies to fund and manage school development funds in public secondary schools in the Khomas region in Namibia
… of Finance that the paying of compulsory school fees for secondary education will be abolished as from the beginning of the 2016 academic year. Although about 25% of the National Budget is for education, only about 20% of that amount is for education resources and day-to-day expenses. This …
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Partnership in Education, through Whole School Development with Parent and Community Involvement: A Study of a National Initiative to Combat Educational Disadvantage - the Home, School, Community Liaison Scheme (2 Vols.)
… central to education internationally. The Home, School, Community Scheme, established in Ireland in 1990, is an example of introducing partnership in a radical way to designated disadvantaged primary and post-primary schools. This Scheme is the subject of the dissertation. There is an extensive …
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The experiences of primary school educators on the implementation of integrated quality management system in Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo Province
… of 2003, IQMS is a collective concept of Whole School Development (WSD), namely, the Developmental Appraisal System (DAS), the Performance Measurement (PM) and Whole School Evaluation (WSE). However, the implementation of this agreement created challenges for some educators, especially in …
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Rektorers normer i ledarskapet för skolutveckling
This thesis puts a focus on school leadership and school development. The local authorities took over responsibility for public education in 1991. At the same time, steerage by rules was abandoned in favour of steerage by goal-setting and result evaluation. The principal is an important link in …
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Improving learning through whole-school evaluation: moving towards a model of internal evaluation in Irish post-primary schools
This study explores the concept of school evaluation and in particular how the Irish education system and post-primary schools can successfully move from a centrally controlled system of evaluation to a model based on school self-evaluation. Within a context of increasing interest in school …
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Making schools the centers of communities : moving the Los Angeles Unified School District from policy to practice
Schools often represent the largest, single community public infrastructure investment. In light of this, California's Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is in a unique and critical position as it attempts to undertake the largest, single capital improvement campaign in the Nation's …
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School improvement in an era of change : attempting development planning at public local school level in the Western Cape
… for state policy towards the provision of public schooling. Reform initiatives supported by the South African Schools Act (1996) emphasize the need for democratic and participative management at school level, a necessary shift from the rigid, authoritarian and bureaucratic values of the previous …
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Educating for social change: The history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1932-1964
This thesis documents how the Freedom Schools, an historical example of radical education, developed in Mississippi in 1964 and postulates why Freedom Schools developed in their particular social, economic, and political context. My analysis begins with Myles Horton, a radical educator in Tennessee …
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Using emotional literacy to facilitate organisational change in a primary school : a case study
… which was completed in a city suburban primary school, is made up of two embedded units, the first uses interview to examine staff perceptions of emotional literacy. The second employs collaborative action research to consider whether emotional literacy can be used to promote organisational …
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Parental Involvement with Secondary School Leadership: The Experience of Four Vietnamese Immigrant Parents in Saskatoon
… immigrants understand parental involvement with school leadership. The study was guided by three research questions: (1) How do Vietnamese immigrants articulate parental involvement with school leadership? (2) How are they involved in school leadership? and (3) What are the differences between …
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Malampaka Secondary School improvement Project Proposal
The improvement of Malampaka Secondary School is considered to (broaden) secondary school education and stimulate community economic development in Sengerema Division. Consultancy work was therefore launched at Malampaka Secondary School to establish critical school development factors that needed …
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