Malá škola po pěti letech: proměny školy v době reformy

• Authors: Dvořák Dominik , Starý Karel , Urbánek Petr

Title variants

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A small school revisited: School change in the time of reform

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The major reform of Czech schools has not achieved its goals according to several recent studies. This paper describes mechanisms of troubled enactment of the reform in one school. First, the method of congruence analysis is presented as a tool to link the case observations and theoretical models. Then, two rival theories of educational change are sketched. The empirical part of the paper describes the school’s improvement over more than five years and the roles of different actors. The interaction between the processes of inner school development and the top-down mandated educational reform is discussed. A longitudinal qualitative case study of one comprehensive primary and lower secondary school is based mainly on interviews with school leadership, teachers and pupils, lesson observations and documentary analysis. The school with a record of successful improvement (turnover) has very skeptical attitude to the reform and implements it only formally. There is a striking difference between the school’s vision and the national reform’s discourse. The findings suggest that the theories stressing the plurality of actors involved in change and the necessary contribution of different system levels provide more plausible explanation of the reform’s results.

Keywords

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case study; longitudinal research; elementary school; change theory; congruence analysis

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Czech Pedagogical Society
• Journal: Pedagogická orientace (Journal of the Czech Pedagogical Society)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 9–31

Contributors

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Dvořák Dominik

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Starý Karel

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Urbánek Petr

• Redakce časopisu Pedagogická orientace, Doc. PhDr. Tomáš Janík, Ph.D., M.Ed., Institut výzkumu školního vzdělávání PdF MU, Poříčí 31 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic