Role of School Councils in School Administration: Exploring Performance, Opportunities, and Challenges

Abstract

School councils consist of teachers, parents and other community members were established to assist schools in the provision of quality education and school facilities. This qualitative case study was conducted to explore the role of school council in school administration and what challenges did they face in this collaboration. Population for this study was school council members including parents, community members, teachers, and head teachers in District Punjab. The method of sampling was purposeful. This study involves data from different sources including documents and interviews of different stakeholders of the school council. The documents involved the School Council Act, SBAP (school-based action plan)/ proceedings of meetings with school councils, order book, resolutions passed by the school council, notifications, meeting notices, school inspection register for SC, the record of financial affairs, stock register. The framework analysis approach introduced by (Ritchie & Spencer, 1994) was used for the analysis of data in this research. After analysis seven themes emerged which includes academic role, administrative role, financial role, selection, perception of inability, motivation and time. These results can be applied to transform school council in an efficient supporting body in school education department.