Threat Rigidity, School Reform, and How Teachers View Their Work inside Current Education Policy Contexts

Autor/inn/en	Olsen, Brad; Sexton, Dena
Titel	Threat Rigidity, School Reform, and How Teachers View Their Work inside Current Education Policy Contexts
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 46 (2009) 1, S.9-44 (36 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831208320573
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; High Schools; Secondary School Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Educational Policy; Work Attitudes; Negative Attitudes; Federal Legislation; Context Effect; Qualitative Research; Educational Environment; Interviews; Institutional Survival; Intergroup Relations; Professional Autonomy; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; High school; Oberschule; Lehrerverhalten; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Negative Fixierung; Bundesrecht; Qualitative Forschung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Berufsfreiheit; Kalifornien
Abstract	This article reports on a study of teachers at one reforming high school. Though it is not their task to debate No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the authors locate their investigation inside the current policy context to which NCLB is attached. Specifically, they present their analysis through the organizational behavior lens of threat rigidity to discuss the ways that current federal and state policy contexts influence schools and how those affected schools in turn adopt corresponding reforms that influence teachers' work. The analysis demonstrates that on both levels, such influence occurs in similar ways: by centralizing and restricting the flow of information, by constricting control, by emphasizing routinized and simplified instructional/assessment practices, and by applying strong pressure for school personnel to conform. (Contains 1 table, 1 figure and 11 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10