D.Ed. / The South African Schools Act 84 of 1996 mandates the introduction of democratic school governance. The problems that need to be addressed are poor school governance, poorly motivated learners and educators, and a general lack of managerial skills in school leadership. This research has argued that developing school governing bodies, and providing them with the skills to govern effectively, is crucial to the success of a school transformation process. The research concentrated on schools in the Northern Cape and Gauteng Province. A quantitative research methodology was used to elicit the perceptions of educators with regard to the frequency with which school leaders practice collaborative leadership. A structured questionnaire consisting of 61 items was administered to 500 educators, with a return of 87%. In this research, 61 items were formulated to secure information on the importance of various essential functions for school leaders to collaboratively govern their schools. The construct validity of the instrument in this research was investigated by means of successive first and second order factor analytic procedures performed on the 61 items. The first order procedure involved a principal component analysis (PCA1) followed by a principal factor analysis (PFA1). The following four first order factors were derived from the first analytic procedure performed on the 61 items: Achievement orientated leadership consisting of 25 items with a Cronbach-Alpha reliability of 0,979 with no items rejected. Team orientated leadership consisting of 15 items with a Cronbach- Alpha reliability of 0,962 with no items rejected. Communication orientated leadership consisting of 14 items with Cronback-Alpha reliability of 0,962 with no items rejected. Innovation orientated leadership consisting of 7 items with a Cronbach- Alpha reliability of 0,913. The four obtained from the first order factor analysis were now used as inputs for the second order procedure. These procedures resulted in the four factors consisting of 61 items being reduced to one factor that was named authentic collaborative leadership. It had a Cronbach-Alpha reliability coefficient of 0,990 with no items rejected. The literature survey was used to indicate the difference between authentic collaborative leadership based on an achievement, team, communication, and innovation orientation and inauthentic collaboration based on contrived collegiality. The research is concluded with recommendations based on 19 findings.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:2803 |
| Date | 20 August 2012 |
| Creators | O'Meara, William Joseph |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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