In search of a Liberating Practice Leadership, Teacher Commitment and the Struggle for Effective Schools in South Africa

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10.2991/mdhss-13.2013.118How to use a DOI?

Keywords

effectiveness, professional development, instructional leadership, school culture, school climate.

Abstract

This presentation is adapted from recent unpublished research findings of a study conducted in six Gauteng schools. There is growing research currently which focuses on the reasons why some schools fail to attain effective teaching and learning. In tandem with this, there have been a number of reasons as to why some schools are dysfunctional and not able to perform as expected by stakeholders. It is a critical commonplace that school leadership and management inefficiency leads to underperformance and paralysis of the school as an organisation. Yet, arguably, even with an able visionary team at the helm, schools will not perform well without the effective commitment of the teaching staff. This conceptual paper explicates teacher commitment within the commitment of South Africa. It argues that commitment should be the basis of any successful school. Among the themes explored are political ethic, school culture, power dynamics and servant leadership.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - In search of a Liberating Practice Leadership, Teacher Commitment and the Struggle for Effective Schools in South Africa
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