Barriers Inhibiting The Implementation Of Gender Equity And Accessibility Of Female Teachers To Management Positions In Oliver Reginald Tambo Inland District
- Authors: Mandi, Sisiwe
- Date: 2019-00
- Subjects: Gender
- Language: English
- Type: Master's/Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/6665 , vital:47200
- Description: The purpose of the study was to examine the barriers inhibiting the implementation of gender equity and accessibility of female teachers to management positions. This study was conducted in the OR Tambo inland, which is one of the Education Districts in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It should be noted that in terms of intelligence, requisite skills to influence and motivate the workers to accomplish the organisational goals is not linked to gender. It is for this backdrop that motivated me to examine the factors prohibiting and limiting thereof the females from being offered and occupy the management positions in most organisational institutions. This study is aimed to promote a paradigm shift and transformation in overlooking the gender equity by the role-players in the societies and various institutions. Furthermore, the study intends to promote the awareness to stake holders and enactment that the management positions are for everyone who possesses the leadership and management skills. The feminist and social constructivism theories were employed in engaging with the literature reviewed in this research. The survey research design was adopted in this study. A mixed methods research was used to gather and analyse the collected data. Principals, deputy principals and heads of departments were the target population from which the sample was drawn. There were 90 subjects from which data were collected, where 78 were subjected to questionnaires while 12 of them were interviewed. The sample was purposefully selected from 4 high schools that are geographically located in the OR Tambo inland: one from circuit 9, one from circuit 11 and two from circuit 3 schools. The tools used for the gathering of the data were questionnaires, observation and interviews. The analyses of the two data sets were done separately and later put together for discussion. This implies that sequential data analysis was performed. Qualitative data were analysed using content analysis. The quantitative data collected through questionnaire were analysed by using valid percentages, and tables generated by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The use of SPSS helped me to summarise the collected quantitative data in examining the relationships of variables towards the problem under study. The descriptive and inferential statistics were considered for quantitative data analysis. Upon the completion of the quantitative data analyses, the qualitative data were analysed using content analysis. The findings from this study reveal that the social and cultural stereotypes of female managers; females’ lack of capacity and motivation; male dominance and cultural perceptions/beliefs; union and school governing bodies (SGBs) interference and institutional policies are barriers inhibiting the implementation of gender equity and accessibility of female teachers to management positions. Based on the emerged findings, it is recommended that policy-makers, the administration officers and immediate supervisors encourage the panellists for short-listing and interviews to comply with the legislative that requires the transformation and adherence to gender equity in all recruitment processes and practices. It is also recommended that workshops about the compliance on the implementation of gender equity by the role-players in education sector are widely and often conducted. It is further recommended that through distribution of circulars and school newsletters, conducting of imbizo or the role-players about the adherence to gender equity and constant dialogue with the communities, teacher’ unions, parents and youth in meetings could improve their perceptions and understanding that management positions for employees should be based on efficiency, competence and professional qualification but not on gender perspective. , Thesis (D.Ed) -- Faculty of Education Sciences, 2019
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- Date Issued: 2019-00
Factors contributing to high dropout rate in two selected Junior Secondary Schools in the Mqanduli Area of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Authors: Mandi, Sisiwe
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: High school dropout -- Education (Secondary) , South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Ed
- Identifier: vital:18443 , http://hdl.handle.net/11260/d1007269
- Description: This research sought to investigate into factors contributing to high dropout rate amongst grade 9 learners in Mqanduli district. Though access to basic education in South Africa has increased substantially over the last few years, dropout rate in the schools continues to rise up in many rural schools especially Mqanduli district schools. The consequence of dropout as a matter of fact has a profound effect on the individual, family, community and economy. It is common knowledge that high dropout rate reduces the pool of qualified people from diverse backgrounds. In our rural schools most specially Mqanduli district, the concern of the researcher was to find out in Mqanduli schools the factors that contribute to high drop-out rate amongst Grade 9 learners and how they can be minimized if not eradicated. The study approach was qualitative, using the case study technique. The case study technique was used for the in-depth investigation of the factors contributing to high learner dropout. In this study, the target population was two school management team (SMT) per school and one head of department (HoD) and a principal in each of the selected schools in the Mqanduli district junior schools. Samples of the two schools were conveniently selected from the population of schools in the Mqanduli district research data gathering. The main research instrument was face to face semi-structured interview schedule. The face to face semi-structured individual interview was used with the participants due to its flexibility, this was done with the help of a voice recorder and field notes. The data analysis procedure for this study took two forms: first, transcribing the interviews, reviewing and identifying and coding the recurring themes within the data for each of the participants. The second part was to identify common themes and areas of variations among the participants. For ethical consideration, permission was sought from the Walter Sisulu University ethical clearance committee, the district office and principals of the selected schools and all participants. Finding1 Learner dropout rate: The research findings show that learners‟ dropout rate was due to poor socio-economic background, poor school nfrastructure, personal reasons, and teacher/learner relationship. The average percentage of learner dropout within five years is 13% in both schools. With in five year period, thus from 2006 to 2010 in school A total of 254 learners were admitted. At the end of year period, 222 learners were promoted to the next grade, The total number of dropouts in school A was 32. In school B 279 learners were admitted. At the end of the year period, 243 learners were promoted to the next grade. In school B the total number of dropouts was 36.
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- Date Issued: 2012