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    Leadership trends of principals towards the provision of quality teaching in underperforming secondary schools in the King Cetshwayo district
    (University of Zululand, 2021) Chibisa, Zviedzo
    Principals' leadership styles are a major factor contributing to good performance of their schools. The aim of this study was to investigate principals’ leadership trends towards the provision of quality teaching in underperforming secondary schools in King Cetshwayo District. The study followed a mixed methods design. In 2015, 138 of the 204 high schools in the district were categorised as underperforming. For the quantitative study, 14 of the underperforming schools with a total of 227 teachers were selected for analysis using simple random sampling. The study sample consisted of all the 227 teachers. Of the 227 distributed questionnaires 183 were successfully returned, giving a response rate of 81%. Purposive sampling was used to select four principals, four Heads of Departments and two teachers for the interviews. The study's findings revealed that a principal’s leadership style plays a vital role towards good learner outcomes. Furthermore, results showed that schools where principals delegated duties, encouraged teamwork, held staff development programmes and supervised teachers and learners constantly exhibited great learner academic improvement. It was established that those schools that operated effectively followed leadership styles that encouraged power-sharing while there was no power-sharing in most underperforming schools. Based on the findings, the leadership style used by principals running successful schools was transformational. The study therefore recommends this leadership style for South African schools.
University of Zululand