The purpose of the study was to explore the role of the subject advisors in strengthening teacher instructional leadership practices in schools. A case study was conducted in one education district office where the focal ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of novice teachers with regard to teacher leadership. It sought to ascertain the importance of teacher leadership for novice teachers, to determine how teacher ...

This study sought to examine the patterns of distributed leadership, to explore the factors which contribute to the shaping of particular patterns of distributed leadership and to elicit the ways in which particular patterns ...

Currently, in school leadership a distributed perspective is supported by scholars in this field. Teacher leadership is seen as a means of operationalising distributed leadership. Drawing on this, the aim of this study is ...

The study sought to explore six women from Ilembe District who are managing in different levels within their organisations. The study focused on Principals, Deputy Principals and HOD‟s from different schools. The aim of ...

The aim of this research is to understand the views of teachers regarding professionalism and leadership. As a researcher, I also wanted to investigate whether teachers were given opportunities to lead within a professional ...

This study explores principals’ experiences of school leadership. Through synthesis of varying definitions of leadership, the conceptualisation of the three foci of leadership namely, “person, practice and context” offers ...

The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the enactment of teacher leadership within an urban primary school. My focus was to look at the factors that enhanced or hindered this enactment. The research took ...

Post 1994, the vision of the South African education policy terrain is to transform schools into more effective places of teaching and learning. To achieve this vision, policy suggests a shift in management practices from ...

There are substantive external demands for improved learner achievement, particularly in secondary schools, and increasingly, principals have to bear the pressures that accompany these demands. Instructional leadership ...