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Bantwini, B. D. and Moorosi, Pontso (2018) The Circuit Managers as the weakest link in the school district leadership chain! Perspectives from a province in South Africa. South African Journal of Education, 38 (3). 1577. doi:10.15700/saje.v38n3a1577 ISSN 0256-0100.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.15700/saje.v38n3a1577
Abstract
The role of circuit managers is an essential component of school district leadership, which provides a necessary bridge between schools and government. School districts play a vital role in continuously collaborating, guiding and leading, and challenging schools to raise standards. In this paper, we draw on a subset of semi-structured interviews with education leaders in the Eastern Cape province, on their perspectives on the circuit management role. From these interviews, circuit managers were labelled as the ‘weakest link’ in the educational leadership chain. We explore the cause, nature and the extent to which circuit managers are perceived to be the weakest link and the implications thereof. Our discussion engages various factors that lead to Circuit Managers being considered the weakest link in the education leadership chain and these include: poor circuit office structure, the high vacancy rate of Circuit Managers and external interference. We argue for the strengthening of the Circuit Offices and suggest ways in which they could be utilized to add more value in the efforts to improve the quality of basic education in the public schools.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Educational leadership -- South Africa, School management and organization -- South Africa | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | South African Journal of Education | ||||||
| Publisher: | Foundation for Education Science and Technology | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0256-0100 | ||||||
| Official Date: | August 2018 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 38 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 1577 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.15700/saje.v38n3a1577 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 August 2018 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 January 2019 | ||||||
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