University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 5: Re-creating School Policy
In this umthamo, we will try to understand policy, and the role of policy in the process of developing 'quality schools'. The umthamo will guide you in evaluating and re-creating policy in your own school. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 4: Healing the System: Improving Our Schools (2)
Lo mthamo continues the series that aims to support personal and organizational development of teachers and schools. In the previous umthamo teachers were asked to to implement as many steps of their school development plan as possible In lo mthamo teachers are asked to reflect on the process of implementation and adjust their plans. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 3: Healing the System: Improving Our Schools
In lo mthamo teachers are encouraged to work with their school management and other school stakeholders to develop their school. They will first look at their own personal development, then at organisational development in order to develop an improvement strategy. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Education Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 2: What is a 'Quality School'?
This umthamo will help teachers develop their own pictures of a quality school in the Eastern Cape. This will be done through surveying the school stakeholders and examining an effectiveness, relevance and efficiency approach in studying quality. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Studies Course: Schools as Learning Communities. Umthamo 1: Schools: Organizations or "Disorganizations"?
The way schools are organized and managed affects the quality of learning which takes place in them. Ideally schools should be communities. They should be places where different people all have a part to play, and work together in a supportive way, like the members of a family. The first umthamo looks at the way schools are organized. more
Creating People Centred Schools Video: Changing management to manage change - a government report
This video is linked to Creating People Centred Schools learning guide, but carries debates which could also be used in a free-standing way by anyone interested in school organization and change. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Section Four. Changing schools
Ideas on understanding change are taken forward into approaches to leading and managing change. School-as-organization approaches are compared with the school-as-community approach. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Section Three. New contexts, new policies: new schools?
Beginning with a focus on South Africa, this section provides valuable coverage of approaches to school ‘effectiveness’ and school ‘improvement’. We learn more about schools as learning organizations. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Section One. Introducing the module
This introduction provides a rationale for the module, as well as its structure and content. We read how the writers intended the module to be used. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Cover, title and imprint pages, with contents list and preface
This module deals with school organizational change and development to provide the context in which systematic learning takes place, particularly in developing countries. more
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