Abstract
Addressing the need to find new ways for examining workplace cultures quickly and effectively in order to facilitate school improvement efforts, this article proposes a technique for carrying out such enquiries. By exploring the nature of school cultures and how they impact upon day-to-day encounters in classrooms, it illustrates how critical incidents can be analysed so as to help those in schools to understand themselves better in terms of those factors that shape their practice. It is argued that the proposed method has the potential to go beyond systems of external monitoring in such a way as to enable schools to develop procedures for self-review.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 145-163 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | School Effectiveness and School Improvement |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2000 |