JL van der Walt
Affiliation: North-West University Potchefstroom Campus, Faculty of Education Sciences, South Africa
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Leading and manage diverse schools in South Africa
Herman J van Vuuren , Philip C van der Westhuizen , JL van der Walt doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.14(2-1).2016.14Problems and Perspectives in Management Volume 14, 2016 Issue #2 (cont. 1) pp. 240-249
Views: 1049 Downloads: 1296 TO CITEAll school populations are diverse in many ways. The diversity in South African schools has been compounded since 1994 with the migration of Black learners to former ‘white’ schools. Some schools and their principals have succeeded in coping efficiently with the new social and cultural makeup of their schools, while others have been struggling and even resigned under the pressures of all the conflicting demands from stakeholders. The theoretical and empirical investigation reported in this paper shows that principals and schools could benefit enormously from learning from the experiences of the more successful schools and their principals