What's in a Vision? Introducing an Organisational Learning Strategy in a Local Authority's Education Service

Autor/inn/en	Reeves, Jenny; Boreham, Nick
Titel	What's in a Vision? Introducing an Organisational Learning Strategy in a Local Authority's Education Service
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 32 (2006) 4, S.467-486 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Learning Strategies; Organizational Development; Program Implementation; Academic Achievement; Participative Decision Making; School Personnel; Seminars; Educational Policy; Educational Objectives; Foreign Countries; School Districts; Educational Improvement; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Organisationsentwicklung; Schulleistung; Schulpersonal; Seminar; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Ausland; School district; Schulbezirk; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung
Abstract	It is frequently asserted that schools and local authorities should become "learning organisations" as a pre-condition for school improvement, but there is very little evidence about the specific processes and activities involved in such a transformation. This paper analyses the initial stages of the implementation by a Scottish local authority Education Department of an organisational learning strategy, whose ultimate purpose was to improve pupils' attainment and achievement by developing the Authority's collective capacity to learn new ways of meeting their needs. The analysis focuses on some of the processes that, despite a huge literature on the subject of organisational learning and change, have hitherto remained somewhat mysterious. Adopting an analytical framework derived from activity and actor network theory, we explore empirical evidence of the key stages in "vision building", showing how sense-making was structured and highlighting the processes and activities which constituted the initial stages in learning to learn as an organisation. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10