Being a Teacher: Reading 2. Future Trapped in the Past
This is the second recommended reading for Saide's Education Studies module "Being a Teacher" more
Resources for New Ways of Learning: A Manual for Developers of Learning Resources
During 2005 Saide conducted a series of workshops to build the capacity of a group of educators from FET colleges in course design and learning resource development. From the outset we envisaged the need for a manual that would support people who participated in the workshops as well as their colleagues. The manual is a practical resource that enables us to capture and reformat the various... more
Creating People Centred Schools Video: Changing management to manage change - a government report
This video is linked to Creating People Centred Schools learning guide, but carries debates which could also be used in a free-standing way by anyone interested in school organization and change. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Section Four. Changing schools
Ideas on understanding change are taken forward into approaches to leading and managing change. School-as-organization approaches are compared with the school-as-community approach. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Section Three. New contexts, new policies: new schools?
Beginning with a focus on South Africa, this section provides valuable coverage of approaches to school ‘effectiveness’ and school ‘improvement’. We learn more about schools as learning organizations. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Section Two. School organization: a brief history
This provides an overview of organizational styles and the importance of cultures as well as structures in organizational models and change. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Section One. Introducing the module
This introduction provides a rationale for the module, as well as its structure and content. We read how the writers intended the module to be used. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Cover, title and imprint pages, with contents list and preface
This module deals with school organizational change and development to provide the context in which systematic learning takes place, particularly in developing countries. more
Learning Guide: Unit 7 - Counselling support for vulnerable learners.
This unit explores the role of the school management team (SMT) in managing a strategy for the school to identify and support vulnerable learners holistically. This strategy will involve teachers at the level of the classroom and will examine a simple system for referring vulnerable learners to the appropriate services for help. more
Creating People Centred Schools: Experiences of a school-based reform initiative
This audiotape is linked to Creating People Centred Schools learning guide, but carries debates which could also be used in a free-standing way by anyone interested in school organization and change. more