This article explicates the viewpoints of school managers from various dysfunctional,
historically black African schools. The 56 school managers from four Eastern Cape districts …

Rural schools were always experiencing operational challenges under the apartheid
dispensation. In the past there were always concerns that South Africa's rural areas were …

This paper reports on evidence from five school principals regarding leadership practices
that work in multiple deprived contexts. The South African educational landscape is …

Abstract Following South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, the South African
Schools Act (1996) restructured the previously racially stratified schools' system into a …

This paper reports the findings of a qualitative research that attempted to understand school
decline in previously Black South African schools that were known for academic learner …

This article argues that the work of school principals in South Africa is shaped by two major
sets of constructs or 'landscapes': the literature on leadership and management which …

I examine three main issues, which are directly linked to school management developments
in South Africa since 1994: school leadership and management; professionalisation of …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the literature on
school leadership and management in South Africa, linked to the 20th anniversary of …

While there are perspectives on how to approach decolonisation and transformation of
education in schools, the reality is that all rests with individuals and ways that they change …

According to the literature on school-based management, there are two clear schools of
thought on this issue. One school views school-based management as a positive and …