scholarly journals Ubuntu and the Perceptions of Unethical Leader Conduct: A Case Study of Public Secondary School Leaders in Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Truphena Oduol
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Public Secondary School

scholarly journals School leadership, school inspection and the micropolitics of compliance and resistance: Examining the hyper-enactment of policy in an area of deprivation

2020 ◽  
pp. 174114321989847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aly Colman
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
School Inspection ◽  
Policy Enactment ◽  
Insight Into

This paper examines the influence of intense scrutiny from Ofsted on school leadership and policy enactment. Data was collected in a coastal area of deprivation, providing the setting for a detailed case study of school leadership in a state secondary school and a state primary school, both with recent or ongoing experience of intense scrutiny from Ofsted. Seventeen interviews were undertaken with staff involved in leadership roles. The analyses of data and discussion form an understanding of how policy is enacted in relation to the dual responsibility that school leaders negotiate between the local context at Seatown and Ofsted. This paper suggests that Ofsted forces a privileging of a compliant and consistent enactment of policy; a hyper-enactment of policy, that reduces the capacity of school leaders to address the significant social context of the school. Foucault’s work on self-disciplinary technologies provides insight into the micropolitical spaces which open up for some school leaders. The discussion on the micropolitics of compliance and resistance offers insight into the tensions pertinent to school leadership teams and explores issues relevant to those interested in policy and inspection activity, particularly those within areas of deprivation.

scholarly journals Teachers’ Pedagogical Competence in School-Based Management: A Case Study in a Public Secondary School at Pare-Pare, Indonesia

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
Syahruddin Syahruddin ◽  
Andi Ernawati ◽  
Muhammad Natsir Ede ◽  
Mohd. Anuar B Abdul Rahman ◽  
Ahmad Johari Sihes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Public Secondary School ◽  
School Based ◽  
Pedagogical Competence ◽  
School Based Management

The extent of the role of teachers’ pedagogical competence on the practice of school-based management (SBM) was explored in this study. Interviews have been conducted in order to collect the qualitative data from the participant in Pare-Pare, South Celebes, Indonesia. It was discovered that the teachers’ pedagogical competence has not been developed as it was expected. Accordingly, it was reported that teachers’ creativity was limited by the domination of the government’s interference. It is suggested that in order to improve the quality of SBM, teachers’ continuing professional development is highly required.

scholarly journals La participación social en educación: entre el habitus comunitario y la obligación administrativa

2014 ◽  
pp. 86-119
Author(s):  
Dr. Felipe De Jesús Perales Mejía
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Secondary School ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Way

Con la intención de comprender la participación social en la educación, se presentan los resultados de un estudio en caso desde la perspectiva cualitativa, con una orientación etnográfica. El caso,[1] a manera de texto descriptivo-interpretativo, reconstruye la forma en que participan las educadoras, la directora, los padres y madres de familia en la vida cotidiana de un jardín de niños; la participación está articulada de acuerdo con la propuesta de la Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP). Se hace énfasis en las voces y visiones de los participantes, en la manera en que estos se implican en diversos eventos, en contraste con las disposiciones administrativas sobre las que no se sabe con claridad por qué ni para qué se cumplen. El estudio se realizó durante dos ciclos escolares en una comunidad que fue hacienda, después ejido y finalmente fraccionamiento urbano. Se afirma que la participación social es un proceso complejo, relacionado con la historia, la cultura y las tradiciones de la comunidad, las cuales son disposiciones estructurantes, que necesitan tomarse en cuenta para impulsar la participación de manera activa y democrática, y no de una forma meramente administrativa.AbstractWith the goal of understanding social participation in education, we present the results of a case study from a qualitative prospective with an ethnographic orientation. The case,[2] as a descriptive-interpretative text, reconstructs the way teachers, director, and parents participate in the daily life of a kindergarten. Their participation is spelled out according to the guidelines of the Public Education Secretariat (SEP, for its acronym in Spanish). The study emphasizes the participants’ voices and visions as well as the way they involve themselves in various events compared with the administrative dispositions whose reason and purpose remains unclear. The study was carried out during two academic years in a community that was first a plantation, then an ejido’ shared land common land, and finally an urban neighborhood. The text argues that social participation is a complex process that has to do with history, culture, and community traditions, which shape the way it is brought to life. These aspects need to be taken into account so participation can be fostered in an active and democratic way, and not only in a merely bureaucratic way.Recibido: 21 de junio de 2013Aceptado: 04 de diciembre de 2013[1] El caso forma parte de una investigación más amplia conformada por tres escuelas primarias y una secundaria públicas, apoyada por el CONACYT-SEP/SEB 110286, administrado por la UPN-Ajusco. Agradezco a la Lic. Ana María Gallegos su colaboración en el trabajo de campo.[2] The case is part of a wider research conducted in three public primary schools and one public secondary school supported by CONACYT-SEP/SEB 110286, managed by UPN-Ajusco. I want to thank Lic. Ana María Gallegos for her contribution to the fieldwork.

How Immigrant Parents and Local Parents Were Involved in Children's Education in Macau

2021 ◽  
pp. 105678792110472
Author(s):  
Shun W. Ng ◽  
Ka W. Cheong
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Children's Education ◽  
At Home

The objective of this case study is to analyze how two groups of parents, a group who have newly arrived in Macau from Mainland China and the other who have resided in Macau for more than three decades, interact with the class teachers at the levels of “two-way communication,” “supervision of children at home,” and “participating in decision making” in a secondary school. The findings will redound to the benefits of school leaders, teachers, and indirectly the parents in a sense that looking closely at the ethnic and cultural differences between parents can promote effective cooperation between parents and teachers.

Teachers Pedagogical Competence in School-Based Management: Case Study in A Public Secondary School

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syahruddin Syahruddin ◽  
Andi Ernawati ◽  
Muhammad Natsir Ede ◽  
Mohd. Anuar B Abdul Rahman ◽  
Ahmad Johari Sihes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Public Secondary School ◽  
School Based ◽  
Pedagogical Competence ◽  
School Based Management ◽  
Management Case Study

scholarly journals The challenges of ethical leadership: a case study of secondary school leader's experiences in Kenya

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Truphena Oduol
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Single Case ◽  
The State ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Ethical Challenges

<p>Research has shown that school leaders today face more numerous ethical challenges than before, however little is known about the ethical challenges school leaders in Africa, and more specifically Kenya, encounter. This single case study investigated the nature of the ethical challenges that secondary school leaders face in conforming to the demands for ethical leadership and professionalism. It explores the perspectives of school leaders using semi-structured individual interviews: five school principals, 16 heads of department, five school boards of governors, and five school bursars, in five categories of secondary schools. The views and perspectives of nine parents on the leaders' ethical decision-making were also sought through interviews, because as stakeholders they are recipients of decisions made by the leaders. Drawing on a social constructivist theoretical framework and Eurocentric and Afrocentric paradigms for analysis and interpretation, the study revealed that the school leaders' ethical problems emanated from dealing with the realities of the context which creates conflicting demands for ethical conduct. A critical analysis of these themes using Foucauldian concepts of subjectification, power and governmentality illustrated that school leaders' ethical challenges were intensified because of their forced accommodation to Euro-western global policies. These policies, in particular the Structural Adjustment Programmes policy, the Education For All policy and the Good Governance Agenda are geared towards attaining the utopian dream of development. In view of this goal, the Kenyan state and school leaders are exposed to global interventions propagated on terms of discourses of improvement. The thesis argues that ethical challenges are intensified and persist because school leaders and the State have failed to critically reflect on these external influences, and allowed international global bodies to define the nation's needs, values and destiny. This study recommends that the State and education policy makers need to take a lead in developing their own value systems and policies, taking into account local Kenyan contextual needs and giving greater valence to Afrocentric values.</p>

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