- Title
- The influence of Educational Levels of the Parent School Governing Body Component on their participation in school governance
- Creator
- Kombela, Thamsanqa Washington
- Subject
- School boards School management teams
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/16555
- Identifier
- vital:40731
- Description
- School Governance is focused on the parent component, which is one of the components that make up School Governing Body (SGB). In South Africa, the legislation affords parents numerical majority representation. Strategic positions, such as chairperson and treasurer are assigned to a parent. This aims at affording parents an opportunity to influence school level decisions. However, the extent to which the parent component of SGBs participates meaningfully is consistently questioned, some researchers suspecting parents’ levels of education to negatively influence their quality of participation. Hence this study investigated the influence of Educational Levels of the SGB parent component on their school governance participation, especially in rural primary schools of Buffalo City Metro Education District. This study used Mixed Methods Research Design within Pragmatic Paradigm, using Arstein’s Ladder of Participation as Theoretical Framework. The researcher used a questionnaire as a tool to collect quantitative data and Key Informant Interview (KII) to collect qualitative data. Fourty two (42) parents serving as SGB members in the rural areas of the Buffalo City Metro Education District, ten (10) SGB parent members participated in the interview session. Quantitatively, there is a significant positive relationship between educational attainments of the parents in SGBs and their participation in the appointment of school staff (r = 0.61; p<0.05); there is also a significant positive relationship between educational attainments of the parents in SGBs and their participation in purchasing textbooks and materials for the school (r = 0.73; p<0.05). At face value the qualitative finding seems to agree with quantitative findings regarding the influence of educational level to their partcipation. It becomes moral complex as deeper analysis occured. For instance, some parent SGB members did not participate in roles such as recommending educators and non-teaching staff and the purchasing of school LTSM, not necessarily due to the educational levels. Instead it was because of their rejection of teacher attitude. Also, the parents seemed to reject English, the language used during SGB meetings. Even though the study did not explicitly link educational levels of parent SGB members with their participation. This study recommends that SASA unambiguously determines minimum educational levels, skills, knowledge for parent SGB membership. This study further recommends that SASA embraces explicitly Ubuntu principle in its definition of a parent, to include community members with appropriate minimum educational levels and skills, for participation.
- Format
- 147 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty OF Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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