School Principals at Their Lonely Work: Recording Workday Practices through ESM Logs

Autor/inn/en	Lopez, Veronica; Ahumada, Luis; Galdames, Sergio; Madrid, Romina
Titel	School Principals at Their Lonely Work: Recording Workday Practices through ESM Logs
Quelle	In: Computers & Education, 58 (2012) 1, S.413-422 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1315
DOI	10.1016/j.compedu.2011.07.014
Schlagwörter	Interviews; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Instructional Leadership; Principals; Organizational Culture; Handheld Devices; Journal Writing; Educational Improvement; Improvement Programs; Educational Practices; Technology Uses in Education; Computer Mediated Communication; Operations Research; Chile + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Principal; Schulleiter; Unternehmenskultur; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Effizienzsteigerung; Bildungspraxis; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Computerkonferenz
Abstract	This study used portable technology based on Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM log) to register workday practices of school principals and heads from Chilean schools who were implementing school improvement plans aimed at developing a culture of organizational learning. For a week, Smartphone devices which beeped seven times a day were given to School Principals and Heads of Technical-Pedagogical Units, who then answered closed questions about their current agenda. Six municipal schools in a district of the V Region of Chile participated in the study. The main results support the notion that, at the time of data collection, most school Principals and Heads of Technical-Pedagogical Units were working alone, and if they were interacting with other people, they were always in command. Following underlying assumed roles, most school principals reported performing administrative tasks, while Heads of Technical-Pedagogical Units mainly addressed instructional issues, fostering a rigid framework for the assignment of tasks. Follow-up semi-structured interviews confirmed that participants were not working as a team but rather alone on important issues and urgent matters. Participants regarded the use of the device as a very practical and useful tool to analyze their daily practices. Results are discussed focusing on the use of portable technology to address methodological issues faced when approaching research on educational leadership from a distributed leadership perspective. (Contains 2 figures and 11 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10