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Education district office support for teaching and learning in schools: the case of two districts in the Eastern Cape

01 Jan 2013-
About: The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 8 citations till now.
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TL;DR: Deming's theory of management based on the 14 Points for Management is described in Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982 as mentioned in this paper, where he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.
Abstract: According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

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TL;DR: This paper aims to provide a history of research ethics clearance in the field of plagiarism and its application in the context of modern scholarship.
Abstract: .......................................................................................................................................................... ii Declaration on Plagiarism ............................................................................................................................... iv Declaration on research Ethics Clearance ........................................................................................................ v Dedication ...................................................................................................................................................... vi Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................................... vii Table of contents ............................................................................................................................................ ix List of tables ................................................................................................................................................. xvi List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................... xvii Acronyms .................................................................................................................................................... xviii 1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY ....................................................................................................................... 1 1.

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Cites background from "Education district office support f..."

  • ...The concept originates from the view that local education offices are best placed to play a critical role in promoting quality teaching and learning (Mavuso, 2013), in a specific district....

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  • ...The District Education Team’s responsibility is to support schools, based on the view that local education offices are best placed to play a critical role in the enhancement of quality inclusive education teaching and learning (Mavuso, 2013)....

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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative approach located in an interpretive paradigm was adopted for this study while the requisite data were gathered by means of both individual and focus group interviews involving twenty participants from three primary schools in a single South African school district.
Abstract: This paper explores support in primary schools in a single South African school district. The literature suggests an increased need for educator support in South Africa due to a myriad of curricular changes in the aftermath of apartheid, as well as a teacher corps that is ill-prepared for the demands posed by curricular reform. Documented research showed educator support that is inadequate, leaving educators feeling unsupported and ill-equipped to face the challenges presented by the new education system. A qualitative approach located in an interpretive paradigm was adopted for this study while the requisite data were gathered by means of both individual and focus group interviews involving twenty participants from three primary schools in one school district. In addition, documents were requested from the schools, meetings were observed, and a cluster workshop was attended. The main finding of the study was that there is limited evidence of support for primary school educators in the South African school district studied. A key recommendation was that more curriculum instructors and heads of department be employed to increase the capacity of support for primary school educators. Keywords : educator support; professional development; organisational support; quality assurance; quality teaching and learning; teacher support

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  • ...This finding is consistent with studies by De Clercq and Shalem (2014), Mavuso (2013) and Van der Berg, Taylor, Gustafsson, Spaull and Armstrong (2011), reporting that the visits of subject advisors and district officials tend to fulfil an almost exclusively monitoring role and are, therefore,…...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the background and scenery of the study of the Bible in the library of the University of Edinburgh, UK. But they do not discuss its contents.
Abstract: ........................................................................................................ iv LIST OF FIGURES............................................................................................... xi LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................ xvii LIST OF PHOTOS ............................................................................................... xviii ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ................................................................. xix CHAPTER 1: ORIENTATION AND BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY ................. 1 1.

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TL;DR: Martin Wolf's Why Globalization Works is the best single book to date that comprehensively addresses all of the claims and counterclaims of the antiglobalization and alternative globalization crowds as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: WHY GLOBALIZATION WORKS Martin Wolf New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004 xviii, 398pp, $4350 cloth (ISBN 0-300-10252-6)Give the antiglobalization gaggle their due After the 1999 "battle in Seattle," mainstream commentators summarily dismissed most of the claims of most of the antiglobalization protestors-often within the space of a single op-ed column That was then Over the past five years the antiglobalization crowd has managed to convince a fair fraction of the globe of the correctness of their arguments: global economic integration empowers multinational corporations at the expense of citizens, enriches the wealthy while impoverishing the poor, and strips away the autonomy of governments, leaving them at the mercy of global capital marketsAs these claims have garnered greater credence, the reaction has been a fuller articulation of the mainstream response Economists and policymakers who support the reduction of national barriers to exchange have generated a raft of books devoted to debunking the myriad claims of the antiglobalization and alternative globalization crowds Some of themDouglas Irwiris Free Trade Under Fire, Brink Lindsey's Against the Dead Hand, Raghuram Rajan's Saving Capitalism From the Capitalists, Johan Norberg's In Defense of Global Capitalism, and Jagdish Bhagwati's In Defense of Globalization-have made some excellent points However, Martin Wolf's Why Globalization Works is the best single book to date that comprehensively addresses all of the claims and counterclaims with regard to economic globalization Wolf, a World Bank economist turned Financial Times editor and columnist, has written the kind of book that makes me envious-because I wish I had written itWolf's argument is simple but compelling: compared to all other forms of economic organization, a system based on free market principles brings the greatest good to the greatest number A market system supported by the legal and popular sovereignty of a liberal democratic polity functions even better Globalization increases the size of the market, which increases the opportunities for growth, which increases the number of nonzero-sum interactions as compared to zero-sum conflicts When contrasted against the alternatives, both theory and practice strongly recommend the unfettered integration of national markets Critics of global market integration-variously dubbed "new millennium collectivists" or "antiglobalizationcom" by Wolf-are simply unable to propose a better international economic arrangementThe first three sections of Why Globalization Works are devoted primarily to the theory side of the argument-how to define globalization, why the free movement of goods, services, and people across borders is a good thing, and the proper division of labor between markets and governments Few of the points made in this section are new, but they serve a useful purpose, which is to point out an alternative frame through which to judge the merits of globalization Protestors tend to focus on cross-sectional analysis-ie, comparing how different parts of the present-day world are experiencing the (mal)distribution of benefits from the globalization phenomenon Wolf argues that the thoughtful observer should also make temporal comparisons How much do individuals benefit during eras of globalization as opposed to periods of segmentation? The answer here is not surprising-periods of globalization generate much greater gains than other periods in history …

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TL;DR: In this paper, the reflective practitioner is taken as themodel for prospective QA, where three stages are involved in institutional reflective practice: articulating an espoused theory of teaching, the quality model (QM); continually improving on current practicethrough quality enhancement (QE); and making quality feasible (QF), by removingimpediments to good teaching, which often arise through distortedpriorities in institutional policy and procedures.
Abstract: Three definitions of ``quality'' have entered the qualityassurance (QA) debate: quality as value for money, quality as fitfor the purpose of the institution, quality as transforming. The firstis pivotal for retrospective QA, which sees QA in terms ofaccountability, and conforming to externally imposed standards. The lasttwo are pivotal for prospective QA, which sees QA asmaintaining and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning in theinstitution. In this paper, the reflective practitioner is taken as themodel for prospective QA. Three stages are involved in institutionalreflective practice: articulating an espoused theory of teaching, thequality model (QM); continually improving on current practicethrough quality enhancement (QE), in which staff development should playan important role; and making quality feasible (QF), by removingimpediments to good teaching, which often arise through distortedpriorities in institutional policy and procedures. These three stages,QM, QE, and QF, are essential ingredients in prospective QA.

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  • ...Some writers define quality as value for money, (Biggs, 2001)....

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