The perceptions of school managers regarding management of change in Thabong Secondary schools

Abstract

The first democratic elections in 1994 heralded in a new political dispensation. The education system could not escape the dynamic process of change and as a result there emerged a need to retrain, motivate and capacitate school managers to meet the challenges of curriculum, education, legislation and other related changes. This research highlights the need to initiate school management teams' capacity building programmes aimed at improving the efficiency of school managers. The Department of Education should have a core team at provincial level that will train, support and monitor progress of problems encountered by different schools. Urgent attention must be given to the Development Appraisal System (DAS) which remains a vehicle through which educators can be developed. It is understood that this will require the Department of Education to have a core team to capacitate educators. The school managers are of the opinion that preparation should be considered to be a need to address problems as they arise and consider their implications for revising the vision, policy or implementation strategy under which the program of the problem coping operates. Works!Jops to empower capacity of school managers by the Free State Department of Education are not sufficient to equip them with most efficient management skills.