Departmental Heads (DH) has huge responsibilities of heading phases, departments, and teaching of subjects. At the same time, they need to focus on their leadership and management tasks as senior teachers. The predicament of being a teacher and leader-manager is exacerbated by more expectations from the principals and school management teams…

This article aims to report on the barriers experienced by HODs in executing their curriculum leadership roles within the theoretical framework of human capital theory (HCT). The research followed a qualitative, phenomenological approach underpinned by an interpretative paradigm. Purposive sampling was used to select n = 12 HOD participants due to…