The Effect of School-Leader Support and Participation in Decision Making on Teacher Collaboration in Dutch Primary and Secondary Schools

Autor/inn/en	Honingh, Marlies; Hooge, Edith
Titel	The Effect of School-Leader Support and Participation in Decision Making on Teacher Collaboration in Dutch Primary and Secondary Schools
Quelle	In: Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 42 (2014) 1, S.75-98 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-1432
DOI	10.1177/1741143213499256
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Teacher Collaboration; Teacher Characteristics; Structural Equation Models; Teacher Administrator Relationship; Participative Decision Making; Teacher Attitudes; Academic Achievement; Teacher Empowerment; Comparative Analysis; Educational Policy; Educational Change; Learning Activities; Communities of Practice; Job Satisfaction; Questionnaires; Predictor Variables; Elementary Schools; Secondary School Teachers; Elementary School Teachers; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lehrerkooperation; Lehrerverhalten; Schulleistung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Lernaktivität; Community; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Fragebogen; Prädiktor; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Niederlande
Abstract	Over the last three decades, the concept of teacher collaboration has been embraced as a promising concept in the sphere of educational policy and educational research. Teacher collaboration is now considered crucial to strengthening the position of teachers, shaping their professional space and improving their professionalism. However, the concept of teacher collaboration lacks consensus: both its definitions and its purpose are the subject of discussion and criticism. Against this background, we present a theoretical and empirical analysis of teacher collaboration. We carried out secondary analyses on existing data from a large quantitative study conducted in primary schools ("n" = 271) and secondary schools ("n" = 343) to examine the extent to which teachers collaborate and to identify organizational characteristics and teachers' personal characteristics that affect teacher collaboration. The models we developed using structural equation modelling reveal that teacher collaboration in primary schools is influenced by the extent to which teachers perceive school-leader support, teachers' satisfaction concerning their participation in decision making and teachers' orientation towards student performance. The model for secondary schools is more straightforward: only perceived school-leader support directly influences teacher collaboration. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10