Author's Name:	Philip Gazimbe and Regis Fanuel Gutuza
Subject Area:	Social Science and Humanities
Subject	Education
Section	Research Paper

Barriers, effective, teacher participation, school development committee, school development association

Even if the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture has put in place the legal instrument in support of teacher participation in SDCs and SDAs, it must be borne in mind there are always barriers to teacher participation in these committees. Most of these barriers might emanate from the traditional mindsets with regard to the roles and functions of supervisors and supervisees which are conventionally viewed as separate. These traditional perspectives about decision-making process might be worsened by the beauracratic structures in the civil service that Zimbabwe inherited from the former colonial dispensation that was in place prior the country’s independence. It must be acknowledged that any process of re-educating people takes time and in most cases people tend to be nostalgic about the past practices for no valid reasons except fear of change.