Enhancing parent–teacher collaboration in rural schools: parents' voices and implications for schools

PE Myende, BS Nhlumayo - International Journal of Leadership in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
There is general consensus that parents are invaluable partners in education of their
children but, getting South African rural parents involved in education has remained difficult …

School principals coping with child sexual abuse in their schools

D Tener, E Lusky-Weisrose, D Roe, R Mor, LI Sigad… - Child Abuse & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Schools serve a central role in prevention, disclosure and intervention in cases
of child sexual abuse (CSA). As school principals often face CSA cases in their daily work …

Creating functional and sustainable school–community partnerships: Lessons from three South African cases

PE Myende - Educational Management Administration & …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Globally, there is agreement that school–community partnerships are one of the
mechanisms to address challenges that schools cannot address alone. However, evidence …

Leadership challenges and responses to complex township school life: perspectives from four secondary schools in South Africa

JK Zulu, TT Bhengu, BN Mkhize - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we report our findings about a case study that explored challenges and their
leadership practices as they responded to complex township school life. Four secondary …

Leadership for learning at district level: Lessons from circuit managers working in deprived school contexts

PE Myende, SH Ncwane… - Educational Management …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we report on the findings of a study that sought to understand the nature of
circuit managers' leadership in supporting teaching and learning in the context of multiple …

Growing our own timber! Lived experiences of five school principals in using a Systems Thinking Approach for school development

TT Bhengu, BS Mchunu, SD Bayeni - SAGE Open, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents and discusses the findings from five principals about their experiences
of using systems thinking approach to school development. This was an ethnographic …

Establishing and maintaining school-community partnerships: a challenge for school management teams

ST Ngobeni - International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
It is evident that schools and community organizations can no longer continue to function
parallel to one another; rather, they need to work together in partnership. This article …

Complexities of leading rural schools in South Africa: Learning from principals' voices

PE Myende, S Maifala - International Journal of Rural …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reports the findings of a qualitative study that examined what it means to be a
principal in the context of rurality. We argue that principals in the 21st century encounter …

[PDF][PDF] Teacher Leadership in the South African Context: Areas, Attributes and Cultural Responsiveness.

CP Van der Vyver, MP Fuller… - Research in Educational …, 2021 - dergipark.org.tr
The purpose of this interpretive qualitative study was to determine how teacher leadership is
conceptualised in official documentation in South Africa. Document analysis of national …

Leading teaching and learning in a deprived Nigerian context: leadership practices of successful school principals

PE Myende, S Blose, DO Adebiyi - International journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The study reported in this paper examined the leadership practices of successful principals
leading teaching and learning in deprived Nigerian school contexts. The critical question …