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Collective Responsibility - Redefining What Falls Between the Cracks for School Reform (Hardcover)
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Collective Responsibility - Redefining What Falls Between the Cracks for School Reform (Hardcover)
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How to achieve school reform and organisational change has been a
subject of much inquiry and interest by educators, education
systems and academics. This volume advances both conceptual and
methodological knowledge in understanding the cultural changes
required at the school level to develop teachers' collective
responsibility for student learning. The concept of teachers'
collective responsibility is both intriguing and elusive as it
traverses both sociological and psychological aspects of teaching.
Five major but interconnected discourses: professional community;
professional development; relational trust; accountability; and
efficacy map the terrain of this complex phenomenon. Results
reported in this volume provide clear evidence that collective
responsibility is positively correlated the coherence between
professional learning programs and the school's learning goals,
teachers' commitment to enact those shared goals and
teacher-to-teacher trust. In addition, teachers' collective
struggle to address pressing issues for teaching and learning, and
pedagogical leadership, when embedded in the organisational
capacity of a school, form a complex and dynamic set of factors
influencing the development of collective responsibility. Drawing
together these important findings surfaces a need to rethink how
schools, education systems and academics pay attention to what
falls between the cracks for school reform. This book addresses
aspects of school culture that guide the choices in the development
of teachers' collective responsibility. Professional development,
collective struggle, professional community, relational trust and
pedagogical leadership as elements of school culture and
organisational reform are modelled as a continuum of
micro-political conditions interacting at the school level. This
model offers new insights into the complexity of collective
responsibility as a multi-dimensional phenomenon and is a useful
guide to organisational change for school and system leaders and
academics whose research interests are focused on the how of
organisational change.
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