Getting Started: Issues in Initiating New Models for School and University Collaborations.

Autor/in	Teitel, Lee
Titel	Getting Started: Issues in Initiating New Models for School and University Collaborations.
Quelle	(1991), (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College School Cooperation; Educational Change; Higher Education; Intermediate Grades; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Organizational Development; Organizational Theories; Preservice Teacher Education; Professional Development Schools; Program Development; School Restructuring; State Departments of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Mittelstufe; Sekundarstufe I; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Organisationsentwicklung; Organisationstheorie; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Programmplanung; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Kultusministerium
Abstract	This paper examines the issues that emerged in the first six months of a collaborative program initiated by the Massachusetts State Department of Education for simultaneously developing or improving middle school teacher preparation programs and restructuring middle schools. The literature on interorganizational collaboration provides a framework for exploring the processes that educators in the middle schools and the higher education institutions went through as they tried to establish relationships, define and accept common goals, and plan joint activities. The program started in 1990 and involved four teacher preparation institutions and six middle schools. Data for this report were collected through observation of participants at all-day institutes and through semi-structured interviews. This paper focuses on three sets of issues that emerged across all the sites: (1) partnership issues, including the tensions that arise when organizations try to work collaboratively with one another; (2) internal issues, including tensions that arise over priorities and other organizational dynamics; and (3) issues related to the Massachusetts State Department of Education, including tensions associated with the State's role in facilitating and organizing the project. (IAH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC