Reorienting Leadership Styles for Sustainable Education

• Authors: Christianah Oyetunji
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper describes the leadership style which can sustain education in Botswana community junior secondary schools (CJSS). The concept was examined based on the policy of education in Botswana, Botswana's vision for 2016 and the current situation in schools. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews from a random sample of community junior secondary school teachers and head-teachers in Botswana. The data suggests that the head-teacher's leadership style affects teachers' and pupils' attitude towards a job and studies and that a participatory leadership style promotes sustainable education in schools. These findings can be useful for education policy makers, school administrators and researchers seeking to promote sustainable improvement in education.

Keywords

EN

leadership style; sustainable education; head-teacher-teacher relationship; school improvement; vision 2016

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 59-69

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2012-02-29

Contributors

author

Christianah Oyetunji

• Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Botswana

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10099-011-0014-0