- Title
- Implementation of safety measures in selected public high schools in the Alfred Nzo East education district
- Creator
- Mditshwa, Simbongile
- Subject
- Schools -- Security measures School safety and security
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/17895
- Identifier
- vital:41975
- Description
- The main aim of the study was to find out how safety measures are implemented in selected public high schools in the Alfred Nzo East Education District. The study was motivated by multiple media reports about incidents that have to do with the safety of learners especially in rural public schools. This case study was grounded in the interpretive paradigm and the qualitative approach was adopted. The study was theoretically guided by the principles from both the Street-Level Bureaucracy (SLB) and the Rational Decision Making Model (RDMM). The data was collected from three schools in the Alfred Nzo East Education District, Eastern Cape, RSA. A purposive sampling technique was utilized to choose the research participants. A total of 21 human participants were involved in interviews where two teachers per school, two learners per school, two SGB parents and a principal were interviewed. Interviews were supplemented with short observations and document analysis. The findings of the research include the following: educators get a minimal empowerment to manage school safety in terms of access to school, scholar transport and on. The researched schools had no school-based safety policies. Some of the challenges included the level of roadworthiness of the vehicles that are used to transport school children which exposes learners to a high risk and that puts more pressure on school safety. Drugs and dangerous weapons are other factors which contribute to the instability of school safety. The researcher recommended that educators should be empowered through support from the principals and from the district coordinator through frequent policy implementation conference using online platform to minimize the costs of physical conferences. I recommended that the community must be active whistle-blowers for drug smuggling because drugs in schools emanate from the communities. Indemnity forms, release forms and school-based policies must be made available for implementation and referencing purposes. Schools should establish healthy relationship with external stakeholders like traditional leaders, SAPS and the Department of Social Development to curb lack of safety in schools.
- Format
- 204 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty OF Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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