Teachers' Professional Development in Departmentalised, Loosely Coupled Organisations: Lessons for School Improvement from a Case Study of Two Curriculum Departments

Autor/in	de Lima, Jorge Avila
Titel	Teachers' Professional Development in Departmentalised, Loosely Coupled Organisations: Lessons for School Improvement from a Case Study of Two Curriculum Departments
Quelle	In: School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 18 (2007) 3, S.273-301 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0924-3453
Schlagwörter	Research Methodology; Social Networks; Professional Development; Qualitative Research; Network Analysis; Educational Change; Case Studies; Educational Improvement; Interpersonal Relationship; Teacher Attitudes; Institutional Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Research method; Forschungsmethode; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Qualitative Forschung; Netzplantechnik; Bildungsreform; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	This paper describes a case study of 2 departments in a school, where teachers were inquired about their school's needs for improvement and how the institution and their department impacted upon their own professional development. The results show that the teachers' experiences of professional development, their interpersonal relationships within their department, and their views about school improvement differed radically between the 2 organisational subunits. Results are discussed on the basis of their implications for whole-school improvement efforts in departmentalised, loosely coupled educational institutions. The paper makes a case for the continuing relevance of models of schools as loosely coupled organisations and for the combination of social network analysis and qualitative research methods to illustrate how loose coupling manifests itself in schools and how it impacts on teacher development and on school capacity for improvement. (Contains 6 tables, 6 sociograms and 6 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10