- Title
- The role of principals in supporting the use of ICT for teaching and learning in five primary schools in the Amathole West District, Eastern Cape
- Creator
- Sazi, Ndileka Christina
- Subject
- Computer-assisted instruction
- Subject
- Educational technology
- Subject
- Internet in education
- Date
- 2022-06
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/27876
- Identifier
- vital:70237
- Description
- While some South African policies such as E-Education Policy of 2004 advocate for use of Information and Communication Technology in teaching and learning in schools as a strategy to meet the needs of the 21st Century and for improving the quality of educational outcomes. Principals as school leaders and managers ought to play a pivotal role in making links with different stakeholders to provide an enabling environment for learning as outlined in the South African Standards for Principal ship of 2015. This study sought how Principals are supporting the use of ICT for teaching and learning in five primary schools in the Amathole West District, Eastern Cape. The study was guided by Lee’s (2000) framework on technological leadership. The study was grounded in interpretive paradigm, employing qualitative approach to elicit Principals’ insights on ICT support approaches they employed in their respective workstations. Each of the five Principals was conveniently selected and participated in semi structured interviews, school plans and inventories corroborating findings from interviews. Principals heavily relied on the Department of Basic Education to provide ICT infrastructure and related tools. The study recommends that ICT leadership be a component of Principals’ continuous professional development plans. Approaches for supporting teachers and provision of workshops by the Department of basic education, but little encouragement on forming communities of practice within and outside the school as promoted by SASP.
- Description
- Thesis (MEd) -- Faculty of Education, 2022
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (58 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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