School Culture as an Object of Research

• Authors: Milan Pol , Lenka Hloušková , Petr Novotný , Eva Václavíková , Jiří Zounek

Abstracts

EN

Though it is laborious to examine the culture of the school, researchers have been endeavouring to empirically apprehend it since the 1960’s. A variety of research jobs have been carried out, of various starting points, ways of materialisation, and conclusions. The present text indicates a way of classifying these studies according to the purposes they had been assigned. Though the list of examples is not entirely complete nor is the classification definite, a conclusion is clear and evident: in most cases, the culture of the school is not examined in order to grasp this culture itself. Much more often, the culture of the school is examined as a starting point, a pre-condition, or a tool to explore another object of the researcher’s interest outside the culture itself, such as the quality and evaluation of the school’s overall performance, the quality of the learning process, or the school’s developmental potential.

Keywords

EN

school culture; purposes of research; methods of research; culture of individual school; areas of school culture; features of a successful school; features of culture of school culture(s); perception of school culture; individual collective and organisational learning

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 147-165

Dates

published

2005

Contributors

author

Milan Pol

• Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

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Lenka Hloušková

• Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

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Petr Novotný

• Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

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Eva Václavíková

• Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

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Jiří Zounek

• Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.05.5.1.13

Biblioteka Nauki

28409152