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Prew, Martin – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009
The article posits a paradigm for school development (SD) in the context of a developing country, which is somewhat different from the dominant SD and school improvement (SI) paradigm in the West. Within this paradigm the norm of a school-parent engagement over pedagogical issues as in the West is replaced by imperatives based on full community…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries
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Geber, Hilary; Motlhake, Bona – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2008
The new public sector community development workers (CDWs) programme was established in 2004 following ineffective service delivery through chronic under-spending on annual budgets in post-apartheid South Africa. CDWs receive training in learnerships within the National Skills Development Strategy to ensure access to and spending of local…
Descriptors: Community Development, Budgets, Mentors, Social Change
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This April 16, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Shimmering with Stories" (Biemiller, Lawrence); (2) "Cultures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Athletics, College Faculty