The qualities needed for effective school leadership in the disadvantaged area of Lavender Hill, Cape Town

Abstract

The South African education system is currently at a maior crossroad. Apartheid education with its associate bureaucracy its curriculum and underlying assumptions is in a process of transformation. Amidst all I this, the role of the school principal has become more complex. Principals have core understanding rom teachers, parent's, pupils, teacher unions and even university researchers. They are faced unit competing images of what their role should be in the effective running of their schools, in this complex eras' change in South African education.