Abstract
D.Ed. (Educational Psychology)
The primary aim of this research was to investigate the empowerment of school stakeholders through effective and efficient partnerships, participation and collaboration to avert schooling decadence.
In order to achieve the general aim of the research project, the following specific aims were investigated, namely to:
define and analyse stakeholder-partnerships in the school-context;
describe the recourse and resources that stakeholders have to forge towards hallmark-schooling;
investigate partnerships, participatory and collaborative efforts that beget the credo for competent and efficient schooling; and
investigate the framework of training-modules for stakeholders’ participatory and collaborative partnership
There is no denying that great strides have been made in our education system - there is one curriculum for all children and at least 98% of children between the ages of seven and 15 attend school. However, the achievements of learners are still powerfully (and sadly) linked to the circumstances of their birth. Every assessment as well as learner outcomes carried out over the past two decades has shown this to be the case.
Over the past 24 years in our democracy we have come to realise that education is not only about numbers or financial resources. The millennium goal, i.e. ‘education for all’, involves much more, including but not limited to, policy intent, planning, implementation and monitoring. The point of departure is for stakeholders to be able to detect the signs of decadence early enough to be able to address them.
In this research an attempt has been made to investigate empowering schools’ stakeholders through effective and efficient partnerships, participation and collaboration and the implication thereof on the root-cause of schooling decadence. By empowering schools’ stakeholders to create success through their own self- managing work teams, schools might substantially exceed the current levels of success.
However, empowering them through effective partnership, participation and...