M. Ed. (Educational Management) / Schooling in South Africa has been influenced to a large extent by socio-economic and political factors which resulted in a wide variety of schooling systems with vastly differing frameworks and standards. This coupled with the high failure rate of South African students in the 1995 matriculation examination as reported in The Star reflects the need to critically examine the effectiveness of the teaching programme (Swart and Mothibeli, 1995: 1). The Provincialisation of Education in South Africa has introduced far reaching changes which is aimed at improving the quality of Education and also at achieving cost efficient and effective use of educational resources. In a series of articles carried in The Star, increasing educational budget, introducing a single matric examination, introducing practical curricula and implementing teacher upgrading programmes were cited as some of the priorities of the new education department (Anon, 1995: 5). - While the South African Education system undergoes radical changes the question concerning educational productivity and school finance continues internationally. Odden and Clune (1995: 6) stated that although the budgetary provisions for schools in the United States for the period 1960 to 1990 rose by 200% there was only a slight improvement in student achievement. Many significant studies have been conducted in the past few years on school development and on school improvement but views on teacher effectiveness still remain illusive (Dalin, 1994:10). In some instances it is related to occupational roles while for others it is focused on routine aspects of work activity...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:4501 |
| Date | 26 March 2014 |
| Creators | Samuel, Cyril |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of Johannesburg |
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