Clustering schools to improve teacher professional development: Lessons learnt from a Zimbabwean case study

Autor:	Alette Delport, Jeriphanos Makaye
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Quality education Professional development Exploratory research Capacity building Teacher education Education Quality of teaching Pedagogy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Quality (business) Sociology Cluster analysis media_common
Zdroj:	Africa Education Review. 6:96-105
ISSN:	1753-5921 1814-6627
DOI:	10.1080/18146620902857608
Popis:	Much still needs to be done to transform schooling in South Africa and provide education of equal quality to all learners. The notion of encouraging close collaboration between schools is widely accepted as a possible strategy to improve the quality of schooling in a particular geographical area. In this article, we discuss research conducted on the implementation of the Better Schools Programme cluster in Zimbabwe (BSPZ), a system of inter-school collaboration aiming at improving the quality of teaching and learning at the member schools. One of the primary objectives was to enhance teachers’ professional development by means of the establishment of professional infrastructure. Despite the shortcomings highlighted, our exploratory study brought to the fore potential advantages of school clusters as a type of formalised school collaboration which can indeed promote quality and equality in the South African schooling system.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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