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Exploring a Female and a Male Secondary School Head Teachers Experiences of Leading School Improvement

Thesis Info

Author

Panah, Didar

Department

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

Program

MEd

Institute

Aga Khan University

Institute Type

Private

City

Karachi

Province

Sindh

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2008

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Education

Language

English

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676727903884

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Literature (Foster, 2004), agrees that there is a relative absence of research that documents the experience of male and female headteachers leadership in relation to school improvement. This qualitative life history study explores a male and female head teachers' experiences of leading school improvement in two secondary schools of Azeem Education System, Northern Areas of Pakistan. Semi-structured interviews, observations and document analysis were the main source of data generation. The study revealed that the context of leadership and school improvement are relative and are influenced by the contexts of a school and the communities in which the school is situated. The needs, demands and future trends as viewed in these contexts shape and guide headteachers' leadership practices and their school improvement efforts. So, an explanation of headteachers' experiences of leading school improvement also needs to be taken into account not only their personal skills but also to see, how well they were able to respond to the school context. Studies showed that gender may play an important role in teachers' ascend to headship. Male teachers have better chances to avail headship position due to their better academic qualification. While female may need to struggle longer to achieve better academic and professional credential in order to prove their ability of assuming headship position. In order to enhance headteachers' efforts in leading school improvement, some recommendations to the organization were made, that the organization needs to acknowledge headteachers' diverse leadership practices for school improvement. This also requires recognition of headteachers' unique life histories (personal and professional), which shape and guide their unique perceptions and practices of leading schools for improvement. In this connection, the study recommends that professional development programmes for headteachers may include life histories of the headteachers, in order to understand their perceptions and practices of leadership, particularly in the context of their efforts to school improvement.
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نواب وقار الملک

قافلہ کا آخری مُسافر

نواب وقارالملک مرحوم

علم والے علم کا دریا بہا کر چل دیئے

واعظانِ قوم سوتوں کو جگا کر چل دیئے

کچھ سخنور تھے کہ سحر اپنا دکھا کر چل دیئے

 کچھ مسیحا تھے کہ مردوں کو جلا کر چل دیئے

.         نواب محسن الملک کی وفات پر ہم نے تدبر و سیاست کا ماتم کیا، مولانا نذیر احمد کے مرنے پر سحر نگاری اور بزم آرائی کا مرثیہ پڑھا، مولانا شبلی کی موت پر ہم نے علم کے فقدان پر نوحہ کیا، لیکن نواب وقارالملک کی رحلت پر ہم قوم کا ماتم کرتے ہیں اور الوالعزمانہ اخلاق کی گم شدگی پر فریاد۔

          یہ ہستی گراں مایہ جس نے ہماری دنیا کو ۲۷، جنوری ۱۹۱۷؁ء میں الوداع کہا، ہمارے کارفرما قافلہ کا آخری مسافر تھا، اس کے بعد وہ دور جو انقلاب ہند کے بعد شروع ہوا تھا ختم ہوگیا، وہ دور جو انگریزی کالجوں کی کائنات نہیں، بلکہ بوریا نشین مدارس کا نتیجہ تھی، گزرگیا، وہ دور جو قدیم تعلیم اور قدیم اخلاق کے دنوں کو پیش کرتا تھا، منقطع ہوگیا، یعنی آئندہ ہماری قسمت کے مالک عربی مدارس کے شملے نہ ہونگے، بلکہ انگریزی درسگاہوں کے ہیٹ ہونگے، اب مشرق، مشرق کی قومیت پر حکومت نہیں کرے گا، بلکہ مغرب، اب لیڈری اور رہبریٔ جمہور کے لئے جوش دل اور اخلاص عمل ضروری نہ ہوگا بلکہ صرف ایک کامیاب عہدہ اور ایک عمدہ سوٹ فیا ویلاہ علی فقید الاسلام ویا خیباہ للمسلمین۔

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