Publication details
School culture as an object of research
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | The New Educational Review |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | school culture; research; features of a successful school |
| Description | Though the exploration of school culture is laborious, researchers have been endeavouring to empirically apprehend it since the 1960s. Various research jobs have been carried out, of diverse starting points, ways of materialization, and conclusions. The presented text indicates a way of classifying these studies according to the purposes they had been performed for. Though the list of examples is not entirely complete nor is the classification definite, a conclusion seem to be clear and evident: in most cases, school culture is not explored in order to grasp such culture itself. Much more often, school culture is examined as a starting point, a pre-condition, or a tool to explore another object of the researchers interest outside the culture itself, such as the quality and judgement of the schools performance, the quality of the learning process, or the schools development potential. |
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