A Narrative Inquiry into Rural School Leadership in South Africa

Autor/in	Smit, Brigitte
Titel	A Narrative Inquiry into Rural School Leadership in South Africa
Quelle	In: Qualitative Research in Education, 6 (2017) 1, S.1-21 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Smit, Brigitte)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2014-6418
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Rural Schools; Leadership; Principals; Blacks; Administrator Attitudes; Attitude Change; Psychological Patterns; Emotional Response; Rural Education; Qualitative Research; Case Studies; Stress Variables; Leadership Styles; Personal Narratives; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Führung; Führungsposition; Principal; Schulleiter; Black person; Schwarzer; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Emotionales Verhalten; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Qualitative Forschung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Führungsstil; Erlebniserzählung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This article attends to rural school leadership in two South African schools through the lens of the concepts of relational leadership and emotional labour. The inquiry draws on five years of guided conversations and observations that speak to leadership experiences of hope and anticipation as well as despair and disillusionment. I worked with one black male principal and one black female school principal from two rural schools in South Africa. Over time, the tone of their narratives changed from hope to hopelessness and resignation. The findings spoke to how commitment and care were overcome by the educational challenges, which involved hunger and poverty, orphaned learners, teen pregnancy, rape, departmental criticism and lack of support. Theoretically, this inquiry draws on the theories of relational leadership and emotional labour in rural education and empirical evidence was drawn from narrative inquiry. (As Provided).
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