Abstract
This study was designed to explore teachers’ and middle managers’ experiences of principals’ instructional leadership towards improving curriculum delivery in schools. Literature on instructional leadership indicates how failing schools can be turned around to become successful if principals consider instructional leadership to be their main role within schools. The researcher argues that it is the responsibility of principals to ensure that learners’ results are improved through support, provided by the principals to capacitate the teachers and middle managers who deliver the curriculum. This study utilised three domains of instructional leadership as its framework. The researcher employed a qualitative approach to the exploration of teachers’ and middle managers’ experiences of principals’ instructional leadership. The researcher purposefully selected four teachers and four middle managers for this study. Six semi-structured individual interviews and one focus group interview were utilised to collect data for the purposes of this study. Data was analysed through thematic content analysis, whereby the processes of coding, categorising and classifying were applied...
M.Ed. (Education Leadership Management)