Restructuring and reculturing schools: Addressing the data.

Year: 2000

Author: MILLWATER, J, YARROW, A, SHORT, J

Type of paper: Abstract refereed

Abstract:
In researching in a project of three Australian schools, initiated through an ARC grant with National Schools' Network, a university professional development team collected a myriad of data. In order to clearly see what all of the data was telling us about changes in pedagogy,teacher work, teacher culture, student culture and student learning outcomes a method was developed for generating a set of findings.

This paper shows how data were analyses against the enabling factors selected from the literature, viz, professional development; collegiality and collaboration; leadership; teacher and student empowerment; and organisation and personal characteristics. Interesting commonalities and differences in outcomes are reported.

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