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022 _a18146627
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100 1 _aSteyn, G.M.
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aUsing visual ethnography to explore a principal's perceptions of innovations made in a South African primary school
_ccreated by G.M. Steyn
264 _aPretoria
_bUNISA Press and Routledge
_c2013
336 _2rdacontent
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337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
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338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
440 _aAfrica Education Review
_vVolume 10, number 3 ,
520 _aThis study investigates a South African principal's view of implementing invitational education (IE) as an example of a professional development programme (PD) within a particular school setting. Two types of literature inform this study: leadership supportive of school development and the invitational education approach to teaching and learning. The study uses qualitative reflexive photography to explore the following research question: How does the principal perceive the way in which intentionally inviting changes were made in the school under his leadership? The data analysis revealed the following categories: people: focussing on care; places: changing the physical setting; policies: regulating the functions of the school; programmes: developing people through helpful initiatives; and process, that is, organising the context in which schooling takes place. The findings support the fact that the process of IE needs to organise all the other factors in a way that is both democratic and humane. IE requires a commitment to certain goals if changes are to be implemented successfully; this, in turn, implies that a school should develop a culture of collective learning and that learners should be encouraged to care about one another in the school.
650 4 _aVisual ethnography
650 4 _aProfessional development
650 4 _aInvitational education
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2013.853548
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