Creating a Culture for Change: The University Researcher, Principal, and Teacher Family.

Autor/inn/en	Dana, Nancy Fichtman; und weitere
Titel	Creating a Culture for Change: The University Researcher, Principal, and Teacher Family.
Quelle	(1992), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Action Research; Change Strategies; College School Cooperation; Collegiality; Educational Researchers; Elementary Education; Higher Education; Principals; Public School Teachers; Role Perception; School Culture; Teacher Educators + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Projektforschung; Lösungsstrategie; Kollegialität; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Elementarunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Principal; Schulleiter; Role conception; Rollenverständnis; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung
Abstract	Consistent with educational reform efforts, this study examines traditional roles of teacher educators, university researchers, and public school personnel and addresses the following questions: (1) What role can the university play as change is initiated within public schools? (2) In order to create a culture for change, how must the traditional roles of university and public school personnel change? and (3) How does meaningful school and university collaboration develop? The participants, a teacher educator/researcher at The Florida State University and the teachers and principal at Sabal Palm Elementary School (Florida), engaged in a collaborative action research project. Interviews, journal entries, and field notes suggest that: building collaborative teams of teachers, administrators, and university faculty has tremendous potential to affect educational change and reform; building such teams means that the traditional relationship between university researchers, teacher educators, and school practitioners must be reconceptualized; and the collegiality and reflection experiences are not unlike the sharing that goes on in a family. The family metaphor evolved as a viable referent for exploring issues inherent in building university school collaboration as well as for establishing a school culture for change. (LL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC