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标题：The Roles and Challenges Confronting the School Governing Body in Representing Schools in the Digital Age
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作者：Lilian Ifunanya Nwosu ; Joshua Ebere Chukwuere
期刊名称：Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research
印刷版ISSN：1533-3604
出版年度：2017
卷号：18
期号：2
页码：1-24
语种：English
出版社：The DreamCatchers Group, LLC
摘要：In the developing world, a technology application is changing educational processes and learner’s experience. This study emphases on understanding the roles and challenges of “School Governing Bodies” (hereafter referred to as SGBs) in managing and maintaining their members interests in the school governance in this digitalized world. According to Xaba (2011) ‘school governance in South Africa’ is a fundamental important element in the education system, but it encounters challenges, considering the fact that it is over a decade the enactment of the “South African Schools Act” (SASA), which stipulates a set of consistent norms and standards for the learners education at schools and the governance, organization and school funding mechanisms throughout the “Republic of South Africa”. However, “It seems that efforts to have an effective school fall far short on the governance of a school” (Xaba, 2011:1). The ‘South African Schools Act (Act 84 of 1996)’ mandates the establishment of school governance structure which should constitute elected members; the school principal and co-opted members. The elected members comprise; the school educators, the learners parents, non-educators staff members and learners in grade eight and above in secondary school. Regardless of the school size, parents in the SGB always hold a majority having 50% plus one member representative (Duma, Kapueja & Khanyile, 2011).
关键词：SGB;Digital Age;Learners;Representation;School;Education;South Africa;Educators.