Imagine "Meadfield": Appreciative Inquiry as a Process for Leading School Improvement

Autor/inn/en	Willoughby, Glyn; Tosey, Paul
Titel	Imagine "Meadfield": Appreciative Inquiry as a Process for Leading School Improvement
Quelle	In: Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 35 (2007) 4, S.499-520 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-1432
DOI	10.1177/1741143207081059
Schlagwörter	Organizational Change; Educational Change; Inquiry; Educational Improvement; Self Evaluation (Groups); Secondary Schools; Institutional Evaluation; Foreign Countries; Principals; Case Studies; Interviews; Educational Environment; School Culture; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Organisationswandel; Bildungsreform; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Self evaluation; Group; Groups; Selbstevaluation; Gruppe (Soz); Sekundarschule; Ausland; Principal; Schulleiter; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schulkultur; Schulleben
Abstract	This article examines an application of appreciative inquiry (AI), a contemporary approach to organizational change that is increasingly evident in the business world, as a participative means of school improvement. AI appears relevant to contemporary themes in literature on school improvement such as self-evaluation, capacity-building and distributed forms of leadership. AI is introduced and its literature reviewed, with reference to its growing use both in business and in American schools. The authors then report on "Imagine Meadfield", the first known large-scale appreciative inquiry undertaken in an English secondary school, with particular reference to the experience of the head teacher (first author) who led this process. The article critically reviews this experience in order to assess the potential of AI for school improvement. (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10