Fitting into an established community: the narratives of novice teachers in KwaZulu-Natal high schools.
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2021
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This research dissertation entitled “Fitting into an established community. The narratives novice teachers in Kwazulu-Natal rural high schools” focus on how novices’ teachers fit into an established society of teaching and learning. This study aimed to explore experiences of settling into an existing school context. This study also explores what challenges novice teachers experience in settling themselves into their new teaching environment. This study was conducted in four high schools that are based in Kwazulu-Natal under ILembe district. In each of the four schools one novice teacher was purposively selected to partake in the study. The methodology employed into this study is narrative Inquiry. The findings of the study demonstrated that they did not receive proper essential support that was necessary for them to settle into the workplace Moreover, the result of this study revealed that some structures in the school such as the head department were not fully aware about what needed to be done promote great novice teacher socialization.
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Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.