Exploration of Involvement of Educators’ in Strategic Planning Sessions of their Department

Bernard Naledzani Rasila

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Exploration of Involvement of Educators’ in Strategic Planning Sessions of their Department

Bernard Naledzani Rasila

Published in International and Public Affairs (Volume 5, Issue 2)

Received: 8 June 2021 Accepted: 30 June 2021 Published: 23 August 2021

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Educators are in the “coal-front” of teaching and learning in all schools and they therefore are key in curriculum delivery. They are at the level that drives the direction of education in terms of quality production. They are however less considered in departmental strategic planning sessions, the fora that gives the strategic direction education has to take. This leaves them with hard work to teach and develop the learners but not aware of the strategic vision, mission and goals of the education sector. This is despite that they have to be capacitated with government priorities related to education in each period of an administration as part of them changing with the Medium term strategic Frame Works (MTSF). This qualitative study used data collected from secondary sources, interviews and observations and realised that in many ways educators are not guided by priorities of government and the department in line with the MTSF as they are mostly denied opportunity to be engaged in effective levels of strategic planning. This has impact on quality of education received by the learners in particular responding to the socio-economic needs in their country. It creates disparities between the hard work educators do in classes and the expected impact. The study recommend that the educators are prioritized in terms of becoming active participants of during strategic planning in their departments.

Published in	International and Public Affairs (Volume 5, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ipa.20210502.11
Page(s)	44-49
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Impact Statement, Vision, Mission, Outcomes, Teaching and Learning

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Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation Directorate, Limpopo Department of Education, Polokwane, South Africa

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