Abstract

Schools in developing contexts, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, are often resource poor and seek to access resources from their external environments in order to improve school performance. Critical conduits for resource access are found among the school's external network of relationships between school administrators. Using both network and qualitative methods in the field, this research explores and describes the external social relationships among secondary school headteachers in Mukono District, Uganda. The findings identify implications of network structure for resource acquisition as to improving school performance.

Citation

Hite, J.M., Hite, S.J., James Jacob, W., Joshua Rew, W., Mugimu, C.B. & Nsubuga, Y.K. (2006). Building bridges for resource acquisition: Network relationships among headteachers in Ugandan private secondary schools. International Journal of Educational Development, 26(5), 495-512. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved January 28, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/71697/.

Keywords

• academic achievement
• administrators
• COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
• curriculum
• Development
• Educational Administration
• Educational Improvement
• educational policy
• educational resources
• Foreign Countries
• International Education
• literacy
• networks
• Organizational resources
• private schools
• Resource Allocation
• School Performance
• secondary schools
• Social capital
• social networks