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Principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in Malaysia

The purpose of this paper is to explore the principals’ acceptance of School Improvement Partners (SIPartners+) mentoring practice in selected secondary schools in East Malaysia. The case study of four principals in low-performance school was qualitative and interpretive. This paper shows that mento...

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Main Authors: Padzil, Iskandar, Abdul Kadir, Suhaida, Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi, Arshad, Mohd Mursyid
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Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2019
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77018/1/77018.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.770182020-03-04T07:26:02Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77018/ Principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in Malaysia Padzil, Iskandar Abdul Kadir, Suhaida Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Arshad, Mohd Mursyid The purpose of this paper is to explore the principals’ acceptance of School Improvement Partners (SIPartners+) mentoring practice in selected secondary schools in East Malaysia. The case study of four principals in low-performance school was qualitative and interpretive. This paper shows that mentoring practice was still less acceptable by the school principals as they felt that SIPartners+ as an outsider who intervene the school management. The findings dereived from four research questions which related to the needs of mentoring, SIPartners+ competency, SIPartners+ knowledge and SIPartners+ experience. These findings were limited to the sample of principals used for this analysis. Researchers are encouraged to examine SIPartners+ mentoring in other contexts. The results of this research suggested for the practitioners to reflect on their roles in education collaboratively and call for further research on SIPartners+ practices between urban and rural schools. This paper is one of the few documents that studies mentoring in the Malaysian education system. It forms a basis for future empirical research in this area. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77018/1/77018.pdf Padzil, Iskandar and Abdul Kadir, Suhaida and Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi and Arshad, Mohd Mursyid (2019) Principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in Malaysia. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9 (11). pp. 1446-1461. ISSN 2222-6990 http://hrmars.com/index.php/papers/detail/IJARBSS/6711 10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i11/6711
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description The purpose of this paper is to explore the principals’ acceptance of School Improvement Partners (SIPartners+) mentoring practice in selected secondary schools in East Malaysia. The case study of four principals in low-performance school was qualitative and interpretive. This paper shows that mentoring practice was still less acceptable by the school principals as they felt that SIPartners+ as an outsider who intervene the school management. The findings dereived from four research questions which related to the needs of mentoring, SIPartners+ competency, SIPartners+ knowledge and SIPartners+ experience. These findings were limited to the sample of principals used for this analysis. Researchers are encouraged to examine SIPartners+ mentoring in other contexts. The results of this research suggested for the practitioners to reflect on their roles in education collaboratively and call for further research on SIPartners+ practices between urban and rural schools. This paper is one of the few documents that studies mentoring in the Malaysian education system. It forms a basis for future empirical research in this area.
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author Padzil, Iskandar
Abdul Kadir, Suhaida
Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi
Arshad, Mohd Mursyid
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Abdul Kadir, Suhaida
Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi
Arshad, Mohd Mursyid
Principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in Malaysia
author_facet Padzil, Iskandar
Abdul Kadir, Suhaida
Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi
Arshad, Mohd Mursyid
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title Principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in Malaysia
title_short Principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in Malaysia
title_full Principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in Malaysia
title_fullStr Principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in Malaysia
title_sort principals' acceptance of school improvement partners mentoring practice in malaysia
publisher Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
publishDate 2019
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77018/1/77018.pdf
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