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{"title":"An Exploration of School Leadership in Times of Crisis: Implementing Online Teaching during COVID-19 in Mauritius","authors":"Aruna Ankiah-Gangadeen, Pascal S. Nadal","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a11","url":null,"abstract":"The sudden closure of schools in Mauritius due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic left educational stakeholders with much uncertainty until policy decisions regarding online learning were enforced by the Ministry of Education. While the alternative pathway aimed at abating anxiety about the schooling of students, it nevertheless came with its own sets of concerns and setbacks due to the suddenness of the shift. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that a number of students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds did not have the required technological means to engage in online learning. A case study was carried out to obtain insights into the leadership styles adopted by rectors during confinement, while implementing policy decisions and navigating between key stakeholders, namely, the Ministry of Education, teachers, parents and learners. Purposive sampling, with maximum variation, was used to select the participants from the three types of secondary schools (State, private/ confessional, and private/ non-confessional) offering free education on the island and, in this case, schools that accommodate students from disadvantaged socio-economic groups. Data was produced through semi-structured interviews and vignettetes. Key themes emanating from the data were identified and analysed. The findings, presented under seven headings, brought to the fore the nature of the rectors’ professional responsiveness, revealing that much of the success Implementing Online Teaching during COVID-19 in Mauritius 293 achieved in ensuring that online teaching and learning is transacted in the best possible way in challenging conditions, resulted from the democratic horizontal leadership rapport they established with their staff and students. More importantly, they all prioritised humane and emotional dimensions in their professional relationships, even though they held diametrically opposed viewpoints on certain school leadership attributes and had marked differences in their personality traits. The study, however, also showed the limitations to what leaders could achieve due to out-of-school factors and policy decisions.","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46083617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Language Question and the Role of the University in South Africa Revisited","authors":"D. Nkomo","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45038719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Critical Appraisal of the Silence and Apathy of the Church Regarding Land Reform with Special Reference to the Lutheran Church as a Case Study: Towards Making the Church a Caring and Humanising Institution","authors":"O. Buffel","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49106665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Sensitivity in isiZulu: Towards an isiZulu Gender Dictionary","authors":"Langa Khumalo, Rooweither Mabuya","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43741425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 Forces a System Change – Rethinking Schooling towards a ‘Learning Society’ Framework","authors":"R. Ramroop, Rachael Jesika Singh","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a4","url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted every aspect of society, placing immense pressure on South African education institutions and families to find ways to cope and re-negotiate schooling amid the stark disparities that exist in South African society. In an unprecedented move, the Department of Basic Education announced that families could opt to homeschool their children during the early phase of the pandemic. Illich (2002) states that the two essentials for an educational revolution are the development of a new understanding of the educational style of an emerging counterculture and a new orientation for research. The pandemic has presented these very essentials. Illich (2002) further states that the first step towards establishing a learning society would be to conceptualise how learning in this new framework might unfold and which institutions could be used to manage and support this decentralised approach to learning. This paper uses the theoretical framework approach to explore the literature and debate around the concept of a learning society. It also explores how the tenets of natural learning can be considered the bedrock of a learning society. The devolution of power in this framework can address the challenges posed by the current system as it has the potential to transform individuals and create a thriving learning society.","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43305956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Principals’ Narratives about Leading Schools during the COVID-19 crisis in South Africa","authors":"Emily Bosch, J. Heystek, Marvin Madisa, V. Mogonediwa, Stormburg Vuyile T Tiwani","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a10","url":null,"abstract":"This research focused on personal narratives of four school principals from different school contexts, how they experienced the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) crisis and how that experience influenced their leadership. The main question that guided the research, was how these principals made sense of their leadership during the COVID-19 crisis in their different South African contexts. International and national research confirm that policy implementtation during crisis situations is sometimes compounded by complexities and contradictions such as inappropriate policies, poor leadership and corruption, among other things. The research used a narrative inquiry, in which participants told their stories, to take a fresh look at existing ideas, which in this case is leadership in crisis situations.","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47146010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Keynote Address Mahatma Gandhi 1869 1948 Seventieth Year Memorial Lecture 2018","authors":"Judith Brown","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38c02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42235924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lessons from COVID-19 in Disaster Preparedness: An Examination of Kenya’s Education Sector’s Disaster Response and Management Framework","authors":"Lucy A. Wakiaga","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a8","url":null,"abstract":"On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19). After reporting its first COVID-19 case on 12th March, 2020, Kenya closed down all its learning institutions on 15th March, 2020. Subsequently, the Ministry of Education (MoE) developed the Kenya basic education COVID-19 emergency plan to guide the response and management of COVID-19 pandemic in schools. In spite of this plan, schools in Kenya remained closed for the next six months, with devastating effects on the academic, physical, and psychosocial wellbeing of many learners. In addition, COVID-19 has continued to spread within learning institutions even after re-opening on 6th October, 2020. The purpose of this study was to examine the capacity of Kenya’s education sector in preventing, responding to and managing disease pandemics, such as the COVID-19. A desk review included the analysis of key national and education sector documents to determine how disease pandemics are categorised within Kenya’s education sector; the elements of Kenya’s education sector disease pandemic response and management framework; the capacity levels of the Kenyan MoE’s disaster response and management (DRM) framework in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic; and recommendations to reinforce or redesign the MoE’s current DRM framework. This study was anchored on Wenger’s (2017) Prevent-Prepare-Respond-Recover framework which emphasises the aspects resilience and adaptability as key to an organisation’s ability to rise from a disaster, rebuild and transform itself for posterity. The Kenya’s Education Sector’s Disaster Response and Management 193 findings indicate that the element of ‘whole system planning’ with regards to DRM was strongly evident in several of the education sector documents, but challenges still persist in the aspects of anticipation, avoidance, accommodation, response, and recovery. Thus, the measures put in place to address disease pandemics appear to restore the status quo rather than enhance the education sector’s resilience and adaptability. Therefore, it was recommended that the MoE should place emphasis on whole system renewal and provide the requisite resources in order to strengthen its DRM framework; consequently, creating a transformational DRM system.","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48692691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"School Leadership during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary Case Study from China","authors":"Wei Zhang, Michelle Striepe, Christine Cunningham","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/v28n1a9","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the initial findings of how a Chinese school leader employed educational leadership over an early period during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. The reported research is one case study, part of a larger study that aims to uncover how school leaders in a variety of international contexts, namely China, Bolivia, and Western Australia, managed and responded to the COVID-19 crisis. Qualitative data collection methods were employed to develop insights into the extent to which school leaders’ roles and approaches to leadership changed over the course of the crisis as well as how the leaders’ approaches were influenced by different contextual factors. This paper focuses on initial findings from one case within the Chinese context which indicate that the school leader’s role and leadership approach was centred on supporting student learning, responding to the needs of student wellbeing, and managing parental concerns and needs, which was supported by the school’s teaching staff. Additionally, the paper shows how different contextual factors, more specifically the wider educational system and the parents, influenced the leader’s response to the COVID-19 at the school level. The study offers important insights into how school leaders responded to the disruptive challenge of COVID-19 and the contextual factors that influenced a leader’s approach. Furthermore, the Wei Zhang, Michelle Striepe & Christine Cunningham 226 findings will contribute to current theoretical understandings about educational leadership during times of crisis.","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48799829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Safeguarding Freedom of Religion or Belief: Assessing the Recommendations of the CRL Rights Commission in the Light of International Human Rights Standards","authors":"C. Sauer, G. D. du Plessis","doi":"10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29086/2519-5476/2021/sp38a16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90425,"journal":{"name":"Alternation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44118370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}