Browsing by Author "Kasturiarachchi, C."

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    Organizational Challenges in Managing Schools: Experiences of Government Schools in Sri Lanka
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2018) Kasturiarachchi, C.; Kasturiarachchi, T.T.K.
    The Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka (MoESL) expects to decentralize decision making power and responsibility to schools through School Based Management (SBM). This study is a qualitative case study, and thirty School Development Committee members (SDC) were purposively selected from the Colombo District government schools. The data gathered through interviews and document survey was analyzed by using thematic analysis. Since the schools make many efforts, it was revealed that the majority of schools face a big problem in enhancing the performance of the students. It appeared that the key intention of the stakeholders is to improve the performance at the national examinations. Hence, the majority of them overlook the total development of the students. Lack of training and awareness of SDC members hinder the development of schools. Limited time of staff members is a fact that hampers the effective implementation of managerial and school developmental activities of almost all the schools. The lack of human and physical resources is a key problem in which all of them faced in developing their schools. It was observed that some schools perform very well, even though; they have many obstacles and problems. It seems that intellectual contribution of the instructional leaders is very less in developing their schools. It was noticed that the attention of education authorities on supervision, monitoring, training, and development of managers and leaders at the school level was not adequate. The majority of principals and school leaders expect more power and authority for decision making on human and other resources. It was noticed that there is a big need to have a proper monitoring and supervision mechanism for handling big issues at school level since some stakeholders of schools are very abandoned, thus, they face big problems in managing their schools.
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    Stories of the Educational Development Initiatives in the Government Schools in Sri Lanka
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2018) Kasturiarachchi, C.; Kasturiarachchi, T.T.K.
    Education development of students is a very significant aspect of any education reform.There was a question in this study that is how schools use strategies to achieve their education development targets. This qualitative case study research includes five cases. Purposively selected School Development Committee members of schools were interviewed, and the interview transcriptions were analyzed by using thematic analysis. Most of the schools displaya different pattern of education development, and strategies used for educational development of schools are varied. The main purpose of the majority of schools and parentsis to enhancing the examination results of the students. As a result of that, the main intention of those schools has deviated from the total development of students. However, the majority of schools spend reasonable attention on education development of their students, for instance, they conduct additional classes, seminars, workshops etc. For those activities, it appeared that schools organizeseveralfunds generating activities.One of the schools in this study usually spends more than ten million rupees for their educational development programmes annually. It was noticed that the examination results of their students are very successful for several years. Schools are provided more authority and autonomy for decision making and resource management, the majority of schools displayaninclination in using their maximum authority organizing education development activities. Sometimes, they demonstratepoor resultsat their educational development programmes. It was noticed that the deteriorating schools are not enthusiastic to learn lessons from the successful schools in the government sector in Sri Lanka. They work individualistically without observing at the neighboring environment of them.