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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-105). / This study is concerned with how two schools in the Khomas Region manage learners' discipline. In particular, it seeks to determine why the two schools experience different states of discipline despite the fact that they have learners from similar social backgrounds. The study uses a case study approach. The qualitative methods comprise on-site observations, semi-structured interviews and a review of disciplinary and other policy documents. Interviews were done with the School Boards, the two principals, heads of department, teachers, Learners' Representative Council and learners. The study draws its conceptual framework from seven factors that are believed to influence school discipline: strategy, structures and procedures, school identity and purpose, school resources, parents and community involvement, leadership and management, and school culture. The study revealed that the two schools have many disciplinary practices in common. However, active teamwork, which falls under the school culture factor, and leadership and management were more pronounced in School B than in School A. Compared with School A, School B was characterized by fairly good discipline, and the study consequently attributed these factors, teamwork, leadership and management as the major cause of different levels of discipline in these two schools. It also emerged in the study that School B has a better academic performance in comparison with School A, which suggests that there is a positive relationship between academic performance and discipline.

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Includes bibliography. / This study seeks to identify discourses of professionalism and the production of Teachers' professional identity in the South African Council for Educators (SACE) Act of 2000. These identifies are located in the context of their social impact on, and in the actualisalion of the political roles of teachers in post-apartheid South Africa. Central to the study is the conceptualisation that discourses coiistruct identities. The research methodology is derived from Ian Parker's approach to discourse analysis, which is premised to an extent on post-structruralist thought. The author summarises Parker's 'steps' to effect a discourse analysis, and constructs a set of five analytic tools with which no analyse the SACE Act of2000. The study's main finding is that two discursive frames constitute the roles of the post-apartheid teacher in South Africa. The first is a bureaucratic discourse of marketisation that defines a role for teachers in preparing students for participation in a global market economy. A second discourse which is identified in the study is a democratic professional discourse, which delineates a critical, independent professional role for teachers. The study suggests that the two teacher identities are in tension. The two identities are complex and are simultaneously constructed and actualised.

Bibliography: leaves 124-131. / The study investigated the nature and causes of teacher misconduct in three poorly performing township schools in the Western Cape. It is argued that cases of misconduct arise, because of the fact that democratic values are not strongly developed in the society at large, nor in the schools and the teachers that work in them. The problem of misconduct is therefore, an extremely difficult to resolve within a short period of time. In other words, teacher misconduct is a feature of undemocratic school. Since schools always reflect the society, then unless such a time when the whole society is transformed into a democratic society, that is when we would expect to see a real democratic school in South Africa. Issues emerged in the course of this study, that seems to be barriers to the establishment of a true democratic school are: Issues pertaining to traditional and culture, violence and resistance, money, history of the country and illiteracy. Therefore, we would expect to see a true democratic school, when the whole society is democratised, For example, when there will be a sense of accountability, when people understand the importance of education, economic growth, criminal justice etc. Hence any intervention that aim to improve schools in the African townships should take into consideration this problem.

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Bibliography: leaves 162-171. / Change, whether organisational or societal, presents a fertile environment for the development of conflict. The probability of organisational conflict occurring in schools in South Africa is heightened by the fact that the country is in the throes of national political change. The main force influencing political events in the country, democratisation, maintains its prominence when one looks at the causes of organisational conflict in schools in the disadvantaged sectors of the South African society. Rocklands Secondary School, the area of the research, epitomises the South African situation With regard to the occurrence of organisational conflict in the context of the wider conflict taking place at all levels of society in the country. Although the traditional views of organisational conflict - as an occurrence that is evil and needs to be avoided - are evident at the school, a large percentage of the staff regard conflict as necessary but feel that it needs to be resolved.

Bibliography: leaves 87-93. / The South African Schools Act (SASA), 1996 (Act No. 84 of 1996) seeks parents educators, learners and the broader community to become more actively involved in the school as an organisation in two ways: 1.) by serving on the school governing body (SGB); and, 2.) by providing the SGB with support through participation in the everyday activities of the school. The focus of this study is an examination of the extent to which the SASA (1996) has bee realized in two schools in the Athlone area, with particular respect to parental participation. This is done through an analysis of the two schools studied, using Ball (1994) as its main text. The form of comparison used in this study is essentially that of comparing the performance of the two schools across common activities relating to parental participation in school governance. The theoretical framework provided by Ball (1994) argues that there is non-linearity in the process of policy-making and that the three contexts of policy-making are the context of influence; the context of policy text production; and, the context of practice. This study centers around the latter as it researchers policy implementation, the practice of policy and the micro-politics involved in its recontextualization.