Leadership and Strategic Management in South African Schools

Through a mix of theory and school-based practice, and drawing on wide research, this volume provides both syntheses of educational management theory and examples of practice taken from South Africa's schools. It is aimed particularly, but not exclusively, at managers wishing to further their professional development in the field of educational management.

However, balancing this view is that presented by the Task Team on Education
Management Development (Department of Education 1996, p. 32) that: most
schools presently have only a limited awareness of the potential for planning
which could be done at the school level, and they generally lack an
understanding about the skills required. This belief was also echoed in the first
chapter of this volume, which suggested that there is a lack of capacity to manage
within South African ...