D.Ed. / Colleges for Further Education and Training in South Africa, previously technical colleges, are important role players as service providers for education and training regarding the new learnership system implemented by the Department of Labour. The task of these colleges, regarding the new learnership system, is to present the theoretical components of approved learnerships as part of the learnership programme to learners. This training is done in co-operation with the workplace that in turn is responsible for the practical training. The Sector Education and Training Authority must approve all learnerships before it can be referred to the Department of Labour or presented in any way. Based on the above-mentioned facts, the researcher deemed it necessary to determine if Colleges for Further Education and Training are geared for the implementation of the new learnership system. This study focuses on the necessary capacity for the presentation of the learnerships and the available facilities of the colleges. This information has been collected by means of questionnaires sent to the colleges as respondents. The researcher also sent questionnaires to technikons, universities and industries in order to obtain the information for the specific sectors. With the gathering of this information, processed by the computer department of the Department Information Management, Division: Statistical Consultation Services (Statcon) of the Rand Afrikaans University, the focus has been primarily on the Colleges for Further Education and Training, technikons and universities, by comparing the processed information.

Everyone in South Africa is keenly aware of and concerned about the massive educational changes. There is little doubt about the dominant role that change has played in our organizations and this is nowhere more evident than on the educational front. A wide variety of changes are bombarding schoolss in South Africa at present. In order to remain competitive and even survive, schools as organizations must meet the tremendous challenges presented by all the areas of change. In South Africa, up to 1997, the balance of power was overtly skewed in favour of management and unions relied largely on illegal practices and spoiling tactics to make headway. Despite the fact that over the past decade, greater equalization in substantive rights and dispute resolution mechanisms which treat all parties as equal, has been reached, perceptions and past practices are still deeply entrenched and manifested in an ‘us’ and ‘them’ approach. The aim of this study was to investigate the establishment of effective partnerships between principals and union representatives. The specific aim of this research project was to: • Describe the criteria for successful and effective participation and consultation between schools and unions • Identify and analyze the barriers (challenges) that compromise the educational management relationship between principals and union representatives • Investigate the perceptions of educators, principals and school governing bodies about the current school- union relations • Establish a framework that will surface challenges and remedies to mitigate educational partnership challenges. The results and recommendations of this study can be used to empower school managers and union representatives with effective partnership skills, which in turn will help solve problems in schools This study serves as an indication of the value of partnerships in improving quality in education. Summarily the research has proved to be of high significance to educators, school managers, stakeholders and policy makers. / Prof. C.F. Loock

Bibliography: pages 96-108. / The period immediately after entering the teaching profession is of the utmost importance to beginner teachers. This is a moment when beginner teachers learn how to become competent in the classroom. More often than not, beginning teachers are generally expected to assume full responsibility of professional teachers from the first day they report to school. In this regard, the transition from being student teachers to qualified teachers is seen as unproblematic. The beginner teacher is seen as totally prepared to face the reality of teaching. However, literature on professional development indicates that beginner teachers experience a kind of "reality shock" in their first professional year. This research study explored the concerns and problems experienced by beginner teachers during their first years of teaching, at three historically different high schools in Cape Town. A literature survey investigating the realities and conditions of beginner teachers in their workplaces - both local and international was conducted. Furthermore, existing research concerning beginner teachers' professional growth was reviewed to shed light on the research area. A qualitative methodology was adopted in order to facilitate an in-depth understanding of the beginners' experience. Given the qualitative nature of my research topic, which dwells in-depth with people experiences, I found it convenient to use unstructured interviews as a means of collecting data. Unstructured later discussed.

This study examined the challenges that female educational managers face in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan. The purposes of the study were: to explore the challenges that female educational managers face in maintaining and obtaining their managerial positions, to identify the strategies that they employed in coping with those challenges, and to validate the participant questionnaire in KPK. This is a qualitative case study that was conducted in three phases: exploration, reinforcement, and validation. The data were collected through interviews, observations, and field notes. In the first and second phase, nine female managers from three districts participated, while the third phase engaged 15 participants. This study found that participants faced challenges at both the entry and workplace levels and that the challenges limited participants’’ efficiency and effectiveness in their managerial roles. Participants identified professional development courses, collaboration, acknowledgement, flexibility, and accountability as effective strategies for dealing with challenges. Finally, the study found the participant questionnaire to be a valid instrument (with modifications) in the context of KPK. It can be proved a useful tool to collect data on a larger scale. This study recommends a prerequisite degree in educational leadership for future educational managers, a proper induction method for new managers, and some policy- level changes that would empower managers to deal with challenges effectively. It concludes that the Participant Questionnaire is a cross-culturally valid tool and can be utilized by researchers in Pakistan, as well as other countries. Keywords: challenges to females in educational management, politics and educational management, female management in Pakistan

This diploma thesis analyses the content of articles of the international journal "The International Journal of Educational Management" (IJEM). The magazine focuses on educational management. The aim of the thesis is to analyze proffesional articles, which were published in this journal between 2000 and 2015. The major theories of the educational management for the period of 2000 - 2015 were based on these results. The diploma thesis contains two main parts, a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part defines the educational management and the development of it. Next is the describtion of the procedure and methods of content analysis. Analytical part contains the results of analyzes that were evaluated. The conclusion of the thesis is based on the results of the analysis and is responsible for the research work. KEYWORDS educational management, content analysis, International Journal of Educational Management, theories of educational management

Gender plays an important role in all facets of human life and although great strides have been made against the gender discrimination, still the progress is gradual and slow. More specifically, in the field of educational management and leadership women’s attempt to gain equal groundwork with men is quite evident but the former still face gender related barriers that hamper their progress. The current research focuses on investigating the role and perceptions of women principals in the field of educational management and leadership and on drawing comparisons between their role in upper secondary education in Greece and Sweden. Therefore, the investigation takes place in the municipality of Thessaloniki and Stockholm with female principals from upper secondary schools to take part in the study. Ten from each city respond to the questionnaire, which is specially designed in their native language. The present findings provide an insight about women’s motivation to become upper secondary school principals, the reasons for their under-representation, the variations in managerial qualities and styles as part of their feminine identity, the difficulties they face towards identifying a position and ways to augment their involvement in the field. Drawing on the evidence of the survey conducted in Thessaloniki, despite the great progress that has been achieved in Greece in the field of educational management and leadership in terms of gender, women are greatly under-represented in upper secondary school management positions and significantly face sociocultural constraints and discrimination in their career path. However, the results of the study in Stockholm disclose that women progressively possess the managerial field in education currently outnumbering their male superintendents.

Submitted by JULIANO MOTA PARENTE null (julianoparente@hotmail.com) on 2016-06-26T14:40:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Versão final definitiva.PDF: 940239 bytes, checksum: c0910491821e0927d10203ef5ab93477 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-06-28T16:40:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 parente_jm_dr_prud.pdf: 940239 bytes, checksum: c0910491821e0927d10203ef5ab93477 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-28T16:40:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 parente_jm_dr_prud.pdf: 940239 bytes, checksum: c0910491821e0927d10203ef5ab93477 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-20 / A presente tese, desenvolvida no âmbito do Programa de Pós-graduação em educação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Estadual Paulista, Linha de Pesquisa “Formação dos profissionais da educação, políticas educativas e escola pública” tem como objetivo analisar a influência do gerencialismo e da performatividade na gestão educacional do estado de São Paulo. O referencial teórico da presente pesquisa evidencia o surgimento e a expansão do gerencialismo na administração pública, efetivado por meio da Reforma do Estado, tendo como fundamentos a racionalização do trabalho e a mercantilização dos processos administrativos. É neste contexto de Reforma do Estado e de modernização da administração pública que a gestão educacional de São Paulo incorpora mecanismos gerenciais na sua rede de ensino. Nosso percurso metodológico inicia com uma pesquisa bibliográfica, de forma a aproximar o pesquisador do objeto de estudo, identificando as referencias que fundamentam o nosso trabalho. A pesquisa bibliográfica indicou um conjunto de obras que discute a partir de diversas abordagens a influência do gerencialismo e da performatividade na educação pública brasileira, possibilitando analisar o surgimento e a expansão de modelos de administração pública embasados nestas tecnologias políticas, utilizados em vários países do mundo. O outro procedimento metodológico utilizado foi a pesquisa documental que analisou a legislação do estado de São Paulo, no que se refere às orientações fornecidas para sua rede de ensino, procurando evidenciar como os mecanismos e as estratégias relacionadas ao gerencialismo e a performatividade se incorporaram na gestão estadual paulista, reproduzindo modelos de gestão semelhantes aos utilizados pela administração empresarial. A pesquisa documental demonstrou a presença de elementos gerencialistas na gestão educacional de São Paulo, na medida em que as orientações contidas na legislação estadual estimulam a competitividade das escolas, a racionalidade na gestão, a ênfase nos resultados e a padronização do ensino. / This thesis, developed within the Postgraduate Education of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Estadual Paulista Program, Research Line "Training of education professionals, educational policies and public school" aims to analyze the influence of managerialism and performativity in education management of the state of São Paulo. The theoretical framework of this research highlights the emergence and expansion of managerialism in public administration, effective through State Reform, with the fundamentals of the job rationalization and commodification of administrative processes. It is in this context of state reform and modernization of public administration that educational management São Paulo incorporates management mechanisms in their school system. Our methodological approach starts with a literature search in order to approach the researcher of the study object, identifying the references that support our work. The literature indicated a number of works discussing from different approaches the influence of managerialism and performativity in the Brazilian public education, enabling the analysis of the emergence and expansion grounded public management models in these political technologies used in countries around the world. The other methodological procedure used was documental research that analyzed the laws of the State of São Paulo, with regard to the guidance provided for its education system, trying to show how the mechanisms and strategies related to managerialism and performativity is incorporated in the management São Paulo state, reproducing models of management similar to those used by business management. The documentary research has shown the presence of managerial elements in educational management of São Paulo, to the extent that the guidelines contained in state legislation stimulate the competitiveness of schools, rationality in management, emphasis on results and standardization of education.

Orientador: Zacarias Pereira Borges / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T08:02:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_AltimarCostada_D.pdf: 3836672 bytes, checksum: 7a1ce88b5f391179fc07a0177cf2c69c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: A presente pesquisa foi norteada pelo seguinte problema: Diante das múltiplas mudanças paradigmáticas, da problemática que envolve a gestão educacional e do contexto que organiza e estrutura o sistema de ensino paulista, é possível a proposição de uma gestão educacional resiliente? Nesta perspectiva, o objetivo do trabalho é se constituir num estudo que pretende analisar as possibilidades para a instituição da resiliência como um fundamento essencial da gestão educacional num contexto de mudanças paradigmáticas, culminando com a proposição de uma gestão educacional resiliente com os seus quatro pressupostos: a resiliência como uma mudança epistemológica e paradigmática; a resiliência como manifestação energética da vontade de potência; a resiliência como modelo salutogênico e a resiliência como transcendência, bem como, com a sua característica principal de gestão educacional resiliente como pessoa resiliente, trazendo os aspectos da responsabilidade, autonomia, flexibilidade, solidariedade, abertura e inteligência. Os métodos de pesquisa utilizados foram o bibliográfico e o comparativo. O capítulo cinco está dividido em duas partes. A primeira trata dos resultados de uma pesquisa documental sobre os registros dos gestores no Curso Programa de Desenvolvimento Gerencial (PDG) Educação: Gestão Escolar e a Política Educacional. A outra apresenta os resultados de uma entrevista semi-estruturada. Forneceram suporte às duas técnicas de pesquisa: o paradigma sistêmico, a abordagem qualitativa e o método de interpretação de sentidos. Foram diversos os posicionamentos dos Diretores de Escola e dos Supervisores de Ensino, que encontraram pertinência e estabeleceram vínculo com o conceito de resiliência. Somando-se todas as reflexões empreendidas através da fundamentação teórica, as observações extraídas tanto na pesquisa documental como na entrevista semi-estruturada, acentuou-se a intenção de sugerir a incorporação da proposta de uma gestão educacional resiliente como um caminho possível não apenas para a Secretaria da Educação de São Paulo, mas para os demais organismos e sistemas educacionais que enfrentam os fatores de risco. / Abstract: This research was leaded by the following issue: considering the multiple paradigmatic changes, the problems that involves the educational management and the context that organize and structure the São Paulo State's teaching system, is it possible the proposition of a resilient educational management? In this perspective, the objective of this work is to build in a study that intend to analyze the possibilities for the institution of resilience as an essential fundament of educational management in a context of paradigmatic changes, culminating with the proposition of a resilient educational management with its four assumptions: the resilience as an epistemological and paradigmatic change; the resilience as an energetic manifestation of the power of will; the resilience as a salutogenic model and the resilience as a transcendence, as well as with its main resilient educational management characteristic as resilient person, bringing the aspects of responsibility, autonomy, flexibility, solidarity, openness and intelligence. The research methods used were bibliographic and comparative. The fifth chapter is divided in two parts. The first explores the results of a documental research about the registers of the managers from the Course Program of Management Development (PMD) Education: School Management and the Educational Politics. The other presents the results of a semi structured interview. Provided support to the two research techniques: the systematic paradigm, the qualitative approach and the sense interpretation method. Were several the positioning of the school directors and educational supervisors that found relevance and established a link with the resilience concept. Adding up all reflections undertaken though the theoretical embasement, the observation extracted both at the documental research and at the semi structured interview, it was accentuated the intention of suggest the incorporation of the proposal of resilient educational management as a possible way not only to the Education Secretary of São Paulo, but for all the organisms and educational systems that face the risk factors. / Doutorado / Politicas, Administração e Sistemas Educacionais / Doutor em Educação

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-02-05T14:46:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 eloisaelenanoe.pdf: 1720624 bytes, checksum: d1d97f9c41154e82675297c3f47df894 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-02-05T15:30:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 eloisaelenanoe.pdf: 1720624 bytes, checksum: d1d97f9c41154e82675297c3f47df894 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-05T15:30:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 eloisaelenanoe.pdf: 1720624 bytes, checksum: d1d97f9c41154e82675297c3f47df894 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-21 / Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar o processo de ampliação do Programa de Intervenção Pedagógica (PIP) da Secretaria de Estado de Educação de Minas Gerais para os Anos Finais do Ensino Fundamental (PIP/CBC) nas Escolas Estaduais da Superintendência Regional de Ensino de Ubá (SRE/Ubá), a partir da atuação dos Analistas Regionais. A investigação busca articular os planos macro e micro, sob o viés da abordagem do ciclo de políticas, formulada pelo autor Stephen Ball, partindo do Programa de Governo “Choque de Gestão (contexto de influência); da análise de principais documentos legais que subsidiam o PIP (contexto de produção de texto); de como os educadores se apropriaram das diretrizes do PIP (contexto da prática) e quais foram seus resultados (contexto de resultados/efeitos). A pesquisa abrangeu o período de agosto de 2011 a dezembro de 2013. No processo de ampliação do PIP, interessa saber se os resultados dos escolares melhoraram em decorrência de uma prática de intervenção pedagógica adequada e se os Conteúdos Básicos Comuns se materializaram no contexto da prática. Os resultados apontaram para a importância da reestruturação do trabalho dos analistas regionais, em vista de se promover a melhoria do acompanhamento às escolas e das ações relacionadas à Gestão Pedagógica. No último capítulo é proposto uma formação continuada para estes stakeholders com objetivo de desenvolver competências na área de implementação e na área de organização. / This research aims to ascertain the enlargement process of the State Department of Education of Pedagogical Intervention Program (PIP) for the last period of basic education (PIP/CBC) in public schools engaged with Ubá Educational Management (SRE), based on the performance Regional Analysts. This investigation demands to articulate macro and micro spheres, by the bias of the policy cycle approach, such as proposed by Stephen Ball, from the Government Program "Management Shock", of the Minas Gerais State (influency context); analysis of key legal documents that support the PIP (text production context); how educators understood the PIP/CBC (practice context) and what your results (results/effects context). The research covered the period in August, 2011 to December 2013. In the enlargement process of the PIP, need to know whether the results of the students improved as a result of a practice of appropriate educational intervention and the curriculum model (CBC) materialized in the context of practice. The results point the importance to restructuration in the work of the regional analysis, that promote improved the advice to schools and that actions related to educational management. In the last chapter, is presented an idea of intervention to these stakeholders continuing training for the purpose of developing implementing skills and organization skills.

1 online resource (xiii, 212 leaves) / DEd / Department of Educational Management / The study sought to evaluate the extent to which the affirmative action policy on the accelerated promotion of women to senior educational management positions has created opportunities for women. The policy was promulgated and implemented in 1995 with the sole purpose of achieving gender parity between men and women in educational management positions. The study was prompted by the underrepresentation of women in senior educational management positions in Matabeleland South province in Zimbabwe against the existence of an affirmative action policy which aimed at increasing the number of women in educational management positions. The study interrogated the effectiveness of the affirmative action policy in creating opportunities for women advancement to senior educational management positions, the challenges experienced by female teachers in ascending to leadership positions, the challenges faced by women in educational management positions, the unintended outcomes and the leadership qualities of women. The study employed a case study design, the qualitative approach and the convenience sampling procedure was used to select study participants. Teachers participated in the study through the focus group discussion while heads of schools, education officers, district education officers and members of the provincial education directorate were engaged through individual interviews. The study revealed that the affirmative action policy on the accelerated promotion of women to senior educational management positions was in place, though not effective because female and male candidates to educational management positions were competing on an equal basis in terms of educational qualifications, experience, and length of service, interview score and the performance rating. Women applicants only supersede their male counterparts in cases where there is a tie after all the above considerations have been made. This approach was found disadvantaging women who in general lack experience and educational qualifications in comparison to their male counterparts hence to date women remain underrepresented in educational management positions in Matabeleland South. The study revealed that women aspiring to ascend to educational management positions lacked family/spouse support and ambitions / confidence to apply for leadership positions. Socio-cultural practices, negative male attitudes about women leadership also constrained women’s v rise to leadership positions. Women in leadership positions face resistance from their subordinates and from members of the greater community who are used to be led by male leaders. The study found that the policy has a labelling effect on women promoted on such policies, it has created disharmony in families as women take their headship portfolios home. Furthermore the study established that home –work conflict causes stress on women in educational management positions .Women were found to be hard workers, less corrupt and produce better results than their male counterparts but are emotionally unstable, use autocratic leadership styles and do not take quality decisions. The study recommended that the Civil Service Commission revise, and disseminate the affirmative action policy so as to increase stakeholders’ awareness so that it can benefit the women, promote more women to headship positions so as to act as role models for other female teachers. The study proposed a model of leadership development in women by creating an enabling environment at home, school, society, and church and government level for gender equality as a pre requite for developing self confidence in the girl child and later in women