Overview
- Provides concrete illustrations of how teacher teams, leadership and processes are organised in their efforts to improve their schools
- Provides understanding of the organisation on the basis of sensemaking processes
- Presents six school types with their own typology, case school and improvement advice
- Points out the delicate balance between state governance and local school improvement processes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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This book presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities. Different schools have different capacities for school improvement, depending on the school infrastructure, norms and routines for the improvement process, improvement roles, and improvement history. The organisation of the improvement capacity is understood on the basis of sensemaking processes among teachers and school leaders. The book focuses on the challenges for each type of school in their improvement work, and which situations and circumstances they need to take into account. The school types are illustrated with detailed descriptions of six schools, coming from an evaluation of a Norwegian school development program. The book fills a need in school organisations to have concrete illustrations from similar schools of how teacher teams are organised, how leadership is exercised and processes are organised in their efforts of improving the organisation and building a complex and effective capacity. Schools’ improvement capacity has become an important feature in school management and leadership as well as in research as western states have decentralised governance to the local level. The expectations on school leaders as well as on teachers are high when it comes to improve their schools to raise student outcome. Accounts of professional school cultures and professional learning communities often describe in an overall perspective the ideal school where such an improvement capacity is in work. However, accounts of the many ways of organising the capacity which perhaps are not all in all ideal or effective also contribute to the knowledge of the local school process.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Local Drivers for Improvement Capacity
Book Subtitle: Six Types of School Organisations
Authors: Ulf Blossing, Torgeir Nyen, Åsa Söderström, Anna Hagen Tønder
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12724-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12723-1Published: 26 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12724-8Published: 10 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 74
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation