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Using Mobile Phone Texting to Support the Capacity of School Leaders in Ghana to Practise Leadership for Learning
Resource type
            Journal Article
        Authors/contributors
                    - Swaffield, Sue (Author)
 - Jull, Stephen (Author)
 - Ampah-Mensah, Alfred (Author)
 
Title
            Using Mobile Phone Texting to Support the Capacity of School Leaders in Ghana to Practise Leadership for Learning
        Abstract
            Several years into a collaborative professional development programme to build the Leadership for Learning capacity of Basic school headteachers throughout Ghana, the challenge is to sustain commitment, deepen understanding and share learning among the school leaders. Employing ubiquitous mobile phone technology, weekly text messages have been sent to the programme's 175 initial participants. During the year of the pilot project different forms of messages have been tried, and feedback from recipients suggests their value. The paper reports experience and findings from the pilot, and considers plans for scaling-up to reach all 18,000 Basic schools across the country.
        Publication
            Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
        Volume
            103
        Pages
            1295-1302
        Date
            November 26, 2013
        Series
            13th International Educational Technology Conference
        Journal Abbr
            Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
        Language
            en
        ISSN
            1877-0428
        Accessed
            19/05/2020, 13:41
        Library Catalogue
            ScienceDirect
        Extra
            shortDOI: 10/gf7gsh
        Citation
            Swaffield, S., Jull, S., & Ampah-Mensah, A. (2013). Using Mobile Phone Texting to Support the Capacity of School Leaders in Ghana to Practise Leadership for Learning. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 103, 1295–1302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.10.459
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