“…Ideology, politics and activism are evident in education policies. The plethora of education policies for social justice target inequality, and include: structures for school improvement (Fleisch, 2006), building school leadership (Mestry, Hendricks, & Bisschoff, 2009;Berkhout, 2006), promoting inclusive education (Donahue & Bornman, 2014;Oswald & De Villiers, 2014;Meltz, Herman, Pillay, 2014;Ngcobo & Muthukrishna, 2011;Pillay & Di Terlizzi, 2009), impacting literacy and numeracy (Meier, 2011) These education policies are, however, not always buttressed by efficient structures for implementation or monitoring and evaluation (Boateng, 2014;Maarman, 2009). As a result, schoolbased intervention research often includes guidelines for implementing policy.…”