Author's Name:	TAZIVEI DONDOFEMA
Subject Area:	Social Science and Humanities
Subject	Education
Section	Research Paper

Implementation, Changes, Factors, Secondary Schools & District.

Change is a process that is inevitable in human life and in organisations, including schools. It comes in different forms and ways. In human organisations such as schools, change is necessary in order to ensure that the mission for setting up the school is realized. The concept has taken increased importance with the current emphasis on the need for schools to be more effective, efficient and accountable to the societies and communities they serve. Schools can experience an impetus for planned or unplanned change in response to the internal and or external pressures exerted upon them. The sources of these pressures are varied and come from both inside and outside the schools and the education system. In Zimbabwe for example, legislation resulted in the compulsory teaching of Shona and Ndebele (1987), introduction of teacher incentives (2009), two-pathway system in secondary schools (2006) and many other new developments. This study therefore, sought to investigate the change forces affecting the implementation of any introduced changes in the Zimbabwean school system using the quantitative paradigm. The study adopted the survey descriptive design. The target population comprised all schools in Mwenezi District using a sample of 220 teachers and heads made up of 124 females and 96 males. All the information was collected through a questionnaire which had both closed and open-ended questions. The study revealed that school heads faced structural and individual problems that inhibited smooth implementation of school changes. The study recommends that school heads should create conducive environments to remove structural and individual challenges that inhibit change implementation.