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dc.contributor.authorWood, Lesley
dc.contributor.authorGovender, Bernadette
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-18T06:59:00Z
dc.date.available2015-02-18T06:59:00Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationWood, L. & Govender, B. 2013. 'You learn from going through the process': the perceptions of South African school leaders about action research. Action research. 22(2):175-193. [http://arj.sagepub.com/content/11/2.toc]en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/13380
dc.description.abstractIn South Africa, the under-resourced and socially challenging contexts in which the majority of schools function, calls for leadership that has the vision to look beyond seemingly insurmountable problems. South African school leaders must develop the capacity to envisage and create schools that function well, in spite of the daunting environmental challenges. To facilitate the development of leaders capable of doing this, we engaged ten schools, and 24 school leaders, in an action research project. In this article we provide qualitative evidence that engagement with a systematic process of critical reflection and action facilitated epistemological and ontological shifts within the participating school leaders, contributing to changed perceptions and leadership practices. Critical reflection on the values underpinning this transformation also provided them with standards against which they can gauge the quality of their future leadership practices, thereby promoting sustainable development and improvement within their school communities.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://arj.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/03/26/1476750313479411.full.pdf+html
dc.description.urihttp://arj.sagepub.com/content/11/2.toc
dc.description.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476750313479411
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.subjectAction researchen_US
dc.subjectquality assuranceen_US
dc.subjectschool improvementen_US
dc.subjectschool leadershipen_US
dc.subjecttransformationen_US
dc.subjectvaluesen_US
dc.title'You learn from going through the process': the perceptions of South African school leaders about action researchen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID21813965 - Wood, Lesley Angelina


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