Abstract
D.Phil.
This research will focus on a description and exploration of the management
principles, procedures and processes in a university-based, in-service training
programme for unqualified practicing teachers in community schools in the
Orange Farm area. It is aimed at the construction of a theoretical framework,
illuminating the evolving management model in such a way that it could be
conceptually transferred to similar organic training programmes. The conceptual
framework, which will be constructed from a literature investigation, will be
complemented and integrated with a problematised and interpretive
documentation of the management structures as they evolved in the project.
Main theory concepts that will be investigated are community education, inservice
teacher education, educational management and adult education.
The research report commences with an orientation to the study in which the
groundedness of the design is presented and discussed. It includes a brief
presentation of the researcher's presuppositions and assumptions as well as a -
description of the context of the research.
The main research question is of an open and ethnographic nature and states
the problem as being the unknownness of management structures in organic
community education programmes.
The need for an ecologically or conceptually valid management model is
expressed concisely in the literature on NGO education programmes.
Management models that function successfully in formal education are assumed
to fail in community programmes, which often reveal highly idiosyncratic
characteristics.
The literature study is presented subsequently. General management principles
are explored and discussed. This is followed by a detailed discussion on
educational management and its relation to general management. A discussion
of the function of INSET and the management of change conclude this section.
In the following section of the research report the design of the field research is
discussed against the background of the paradigm of qualitative research,
describing the case format as mode of exploratory descriptive research. The
analysis of the written documentation as major research activity is emphasised.
The data of the report are then presented in the format of examples and
description of the various management activities in the programme. The final
categories of data are emphasised with a view to support the construction of the
envisaged management model.
The report is concluded with the interpretation and validation of the data.