(2001). Bridges, E. (1995). International Journal for Leadership in Education, 7(2),127146. School culture, therefore, is most clearly "seen" in the ways people relate to and work together; the management of the school's structures, systems and physical environment; and the extent to which there is a learning focus for both pupils and adults, including the nature of that focus. In this line, a study . Moral leadership in education: an Indian perspective. It is also a response to the greater sensitivity brought about by the increasing diversity within many societies and the insistence that a perspective based on a single dominant culture risks sustaining a hegemonic, ineffective and excluding approach. R. , In recognizing that culture has dimensions at a wide range of scales of analysis, we explicitly acknowledge that it raises challenges for school leaders in relation to each of these scales. A second early example from the US of a description of a cultural type was the shopping mall school. Journal of Research in Leader Education, Taras, V. (1997). Crossing the great divides: problems of cultural diffusion for leadership in education. 5167). One of the best known divisions was by Stoll and Fink (2000), which distinguishes mobile, . Stoll, & Mackay, 2014). & (2003). (1998). A major international study, The Global Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (GLOBE) project, aimed to establish which leadership behavior was universally viewed as contributing to leadership effectiveness (House, Paul, Hanges, Ruiz-Quintanilla, Dorfman & Mansour 2004, p. 3). (1996). as cited in Stoll, Fink & Earl, 2003, p. 132). Cross-cultural issues in development of leaders. L. Stoll, D. Fink. (1997).Organizational behaviour (3rd ed.). Waters (1995) has identified three interwoven strands to globalization political globalization, economic globalization and cultural globalization. Bennett Cross-cultural understandings of leadership: themes from Native American interviews. In an increasingly complex, diverse and unpredictable world, it is necessary for schools and those working with them . Their typology distinguishes club, role, task and person cultures in organizations, and enables a simple analysis of the dominant cultural themes within a school or a team. However House et al. Culture is the set of beliefs, values and behaviors, both explicit and implicit, which underpin an organization and provide the basis of action and decision making, and is neatly summarized as the way we do things around here. ing the micropolitic and the school culture as key components to study school improvement . Mabey Nevertheless, school leadership that supports, stimulates, and facilitates teacher learning, has been found to be a key condition for collaborative teacher learning (Stoll & Kools, 2017). we elaborated a typology of school improvement trajectories: we identi ed 4 di erent trajectories of school improvement. Cartwright, M. The Leadership Quarterly, 7(2), 163187. Lumby et al. Hodgkinson, C. This paper's focus is school culture as 10. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. The processes of cultural change in schools have been considered extensively in the literature (e.g. Journal of Educational Administration, 334(5), 1231. Stoll and Fink identified 10 cultural norms that influence school improvement (see summary in Panel 2). (2006). Leaders interact with culture at the organizational level both in terms of efforts to include the multiple cultures which may be present and also to sustain, adapt or change the dominant culture. In the education sector, the PLC provides a pathway to a learning organisation: one which comprises 'a group of people who take an active, re ective, collaborative, Leithwood Hallinger, P. Educational Management & Administration, 26(1), 720. (1986). Hothouse culture exists where the pressure is to high academic achievement, typically in response to government or parental pressure to deliver high quality examination results. , Stoll, L. (1991). The aim is to encourage leaders to address obliviousness to their own culture and challenge approaches which may inappropriately embed a single culture and/or a culture alien to some participants. Journal of School Leadership, Coleman, M. (2003). Although researchers are just beginning to document the effectiveness of the PLC culture, early indications show that it has a significant positive effect on student learning (Lee & Smith, 1996; Louis & Marks, 1998; Stoll et al., 2006; Wiley, 2001). Crawford | Privacy policy Gender and race in leadership preparation: a constrained discourse. Hargreaves (1995) developed a different typological model in which he distinguishes formal, welfarist, hothouse, and survivalist school cultures based on the educational priorities of the school in the context of external market environments. The government of Thailand sought to introduce the western concept of school-based management, but found this problematic in the context of an existing societal culture, typical amongst the staff of Thai schools, in which deference to senior management and leadership made the introduction of collaborative and distributed approaches to leadership very difficult. Ali, A. Where there is any element of selectivity of pupils, whether by ability/prior achievement or by geography or by capacity to pay, then the school will be involved in processes of cultural selection. and 'learning school'; and contacts with leading experts in this area of work which led to identification of additional literature. Research has shown the principal to be a significant factor in school effectiveness (Hallinger & Heck, 1999). J. School administration in China: a look at the principals role. School culture, school effectiveness and school improvement. London: Sage. Redefining the field of European human resource management: a battle between national mindsets and forces of business transition? (2004). P. J. Organisational Culture and Leadership. (forthcoming) distinguish transmission models, where experts pass on theoretical knowledge (often indiscriminately, as discussed earlier), and process models which use more community based styles of learning. Journal of Management Development, 15(5), 421. In the absence of a similarly complex or authoritative study of the cultural factors in educational leadership, the design of much preparation and development seems to adhere to an assumed commonality and to avoid detailed engagement with the culturally contingent (Lumby et al., forthcoming), resulting in an international curriculum for school leadership preparation (Bush & Jackson, 2002, pp. Bajunid, I. Walker, A. The paper reviews the literature on 'what works' in school improvement taken from a number of sourcesfrom effective schools studies, from accounts by headteachers who have turned schools around. ), Educational management: Redefining theory, policy and practice (pp. What is the significance of time is the organization most oriented towards the past, the present or the future? Revisiting the Culture of the School and the Problem of Change. Introducing human rights education in Confucian society of Taiwan: its implications for ethical leadership in education. M. Walnut Elementary 625 N. Walnut St. La Habra, CA 90631 Phone: 562-690-2369. In the opening chapter to this section of the Handbook, Fink and Stoll review the contemporary field of educational change and ask why educational change is so difficult to understand and achieve in present times. , It is characterized by very limited research at the within school subunit scale, and by the adoption of generalized models of culture from business and management disciplines at whole-school or national/international scales of analysis. Journal of School Leadership, 12(2), 693720. Hallinger (2001) also points to the ubiquitous use of theories such as Learning Organization and School Based Management, which are firmly embedded in similar cultural norms. Two distinctive views of this connection can be identified (Collard, 2006). For the purposes of this chapter, these two snapshots highlight issues that result from consideration of culture, such as who are the primary leaders and how might the leadership theory used in their development be shaped in response to differing ontological, epistemological and axiological assumptions? Within this, however, there may exist several cultures: Stoll and Fink (1996)25 pupil culture, teacher cultures, a leadership culture, non-teaching staff culture, and parent culture. In Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Cardno, C. , Professing educational leadership: conceptions of power. London: Paul Chapman. , & Certainly it would be helpful to undertake an educational equivalent of the GLOBE project (House et al., 2004) and to establish the education leadership attributes and behaviors that are held in common across a large number of nations and those elements that are culturally contingent. Leading and Managing Education: International Dimensions. & (1996). Head teachers in rural China: aspects of ambition. Ruiz-Quintanilla, A. (1998). Watch Events 3 Live Search by typing your school, event, association. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This may be interpreted in several ways ranging from the operational to the political. UCEA. Sapre, P. Washington, K. C. It enriches the theory related to school culture and the research findings that have been identified in the Western settings. , Dorfman (Hoppe, 2004, p. 333). (1996). Javidan (2005). Cultural fluency will be predicated on more than cognitive effort (Lakomski, 2001). House G. Bhindi Young (2001). No one theory of leadership is implied. Stoll and Fink (1992) think that school effectiveness should have done more to make clear how schools can become effective. Two examples will suffice to illustrate this, though. In House Preparation and development programs therefore face a twofold challenge: In the next section we shall examine the issues of culture and leadership preparation and development. In At the international scale, for example, the work of Hofstede (1991), has sought to provide a broad general analysis of national organizational cultures. Abstract. V. In many countries the principal may indeed be key. In terms of cultural outputs school leaders need to understand both what the external societies expect from the school and what they wish to achieve themselves this will require an integration of their personal and professional values, their vision of the purpose of schooling, and the visions and values of the key external stakeholders. All this is set within a strongly performative macro context in many countries. Stoll and Fink (1996) created a typology of five types of school culture: moving (dynamic and successful determination to keep developing), cruising (rather complacent, often with privileged learners who achieve despite little school dynamism), strolling (neither particularly effective or ineffective, but long term not keeping pace with change), struggling (ineffective but trying to address issues), and finally sinking (ineffective and not improving). In The purpose of this book is to re-orient the current agenda in education towards learning. C By contrast Singaporean cultures emphasis on collective action and respect for seniority underpins acceptance and effective use of mentoring as an important mode of development, defined as a process whereby an expert or senior person guides a less experienced leader (Tin, 2001). The development of a professional school culture is an important approach for promoting teacher learning (Stoll & Kools, 2017). International Journal of Leadership in Education, 8(3), 207221. Assessment is also increasingly against competences which are exported internationally (MacPherson et al., 2007). Instead there are history, context, process, interactivity, power relations and change. Find Washington Middle School test scores, student-teacher ratio, parent reviews and teacher stats. Hoppe (2004) suggests that experiential learning proves enjoyable and effective for US leaders while French and German leaders often view this approach as time-wasting childs play (p. 353). L. Following our examination of globalization and culture in the previous section, we consider here the picture of culture within educational leadership internationally. Watch online from home or on the go. & International Journal for Leadership in Education, 4(4), 2029. In terms of cultural inputs it is important that leaders within a school have the skills and knowledge to read the cultural landscape of the school, to recognize those aspects of it which can be controlled or manipulated, and decide which should be influenced and in what ways. ), Leading Schools in a Global Era: A Cultural Perspective, Peabody Journal of Education, Litvin, D. R. Imperial Middle School 1450 S. Schoolwood Dr. La Habra, CA 90631 Phone: 562-690-2344. Preparing head teachers to respond to these challenges will be a significant challenge, therefore, and this is a focus later in the chapter. , The design of curriculum and delivery is therefore to an extent a cultural guessing game requiring those responsible for preparation and development to hold a high level of cultural fluency themselves and to support the development of cultural fluency in others. (1998). (2007). & Informa UK Limited, an Informa Group Company Home | About RHO | Collections In fact, Hofstedes work shows very great variation within regions. School culture is the set of shared values, beliefs and norms that influence the way educators and administrators think, feel and behave in schoolplace. Hallinger, P. Notwithstanding these different positions, knowledge of how leadership is conceptualized and enacted locally is a sine qua non of successful design. A tentative model and case study. Hofstede, G. Speci cally, many scientists believe (Henting, 1997; Bruner, 2000; Stoll & Fink, 2000; Faulstich, 1999) that high-quality and successful changes in education can be achieved by introducing a culture of learning which espouses the holism and integrity of human beings. Kachelhoffer, P. (Eds. A challenge to dominant cultures and the evolution of cultures which are seen as fitting will be achieved only by persistent efforts to increase the intercultural fluency of all involved, in part by increasing the evidence base, and in part through detailed translation of such evidence to impact the design and delivery of the development of leaders. Just as there is an interplay between culture and modes of delivery, assessment may also be rendered more or less effective by the degree of cultural fit. ), Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: the GLOBE study of 62 Societies (pp. Images of Organization, Powell, A. G. As in the acquisition of any language, fluency can only be achieved by practice and not just by theory (Taras & Rowney, 2007). He suggests that schools are bastions of conservatism, not centers of social experimentation. Similarly, the selection of teaching staff provides at least an implicit and possibly an explicit mechanism of shaping a key cultural input into the school. Every school, for example, has a specific geographical and social location which will strongly shape its cultural context the inner city school serving a diverse multi-ethnic community will inherit a diversity of cultures that may be quite different to those of the suburban middle class school. M. D. Buckingham: Open University Press. (2004) also found evidence of 35 aspects of leadership which are culturally specific, for example, the degree to which compassion, status-consciousness, autonomy and domination are perceived to contribute to effective leadership is culturally contingent. The concept of culture has appeared frequently in analyses of both. The assumed commonality in attributes and behaviors may also be evident in axiological assumptions. Our intent in this paper is to provide a retrospective of the past few years to provide some helpful insights into the change process in school systems. Goddard, T. London: Penguin. & The mechanics of diffusion and the appropriateness of the results have been subject to unequal research interest. Cultural isolation is difficult, even in societies which seek strongly to conserve traditional cultural values within their educational systems. In China the relatively low contact hours enjoyed by teachers combined with a culture of comfort with peer critique has resulted in teacher groups working together for a considerable proportion of their time to achieve change (Bush & Qiang, 2000), while principals spend much of their time on operational administration (Washington, 1991). In relation to leader preparation and development culture has been framed largely as an issue of diffusion, particularly of Western values and practice applied to the development of leaders in all parts of the globe (Leithwood & Duke, 1998). Leadership learning the praxis of dilemma management. Ali (1996, p. 7) argues that the Jabria school of Muslim thought, influential in the Arab world, might rule out systematic planning as to plan is in conflict with predestination. As we shall demonstrate later in the chapter, it is getting to understand these values and beliefs that is a critical first step for educational leaders in developing the skills to manage, develop and evolve culture in their school. A number of summative frameworks for analyzing culture have therefore been developed which seek to reduce the complexity of culture to simplified types which can be labeled for ease of comprehension. (2004). A primary aim of the chapter therefore is to explore how we understand culture in its infinitely variable expressions, and how it relates to the design and implementation of leadership preparation and development programs. As Foskett and Lumby (2003, p. 8) indicate: Bjerke and Al-Meer (1993, p. 31) suggest that in the Arab world: , School culture refers to a total of shared values expressed through norms, rituals, expectations, behaviour and everyday practices. Prasad, P. In another region of China, Hong Kong, teacher contact hours are considerably higher and leadership is more firmly placed with the principal. Librarian resources Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 14(1), 3035. (1993). Similarly, Louque (2002) challenges the appropriateness of the culture embedded in the selection and development of educational leaders to Hispanic and African American Women. A. ), The University Council for Educational Administration: Handbook of Research on the Education of School Leaders, Lumby, J. Bolam | Contact us | Help & FAQs It has 525 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 13 to 1. E. V. Velsor, E. V. International Studies in Educational Administration, 29(2) 3037. (Forthcoming). Davis Bajunid (1996, p. 52) argued over a decade ago that in Malaysia there is an urgent need to inspire, motivate and work with relevant and meaningful concepts that the locals are at home and familiar with and to free educational leadership and management from the intellectual domination of Greco-Roman, Christian, Western intellectual traditions (1996, p. 63). Subordinates expect superiors to act autocratically. Heck, R. The product will be a mosaic of sub-cultures, which may reinforce the cultural objectives of the whole school or, in some cases, appear as counter cultures that challenge the organizational hegemony. Prosser (1998) has shown how culture is expressed at different levels within an organization, ranging from the individual classroom, to teams of teachers, to the whole school. Bottery (1999) has described this as managerial globalization, in which the adoption of western managerialist approaches and business-based forms of accountability underpins educational reform and development. Very many illustrations could be offered of the different expectations and practice of leadership throughout the world. . Mentoring is therefore flavored by ease and acceptance of the views of seniors but sensitivity to negative feedback. Can leadership enhance school effectiveness? & It is probably for this reason that . Its view of the nature of truth and reality how does it define what is true and what is not and how is truth defined in the context of the social or natural world? A. Analysis of culture embedded in preparation and development programs will involve discriminating between what is rhetorical and what is evidenced. Dorfman and House (2004) suggest three competing propositions: that cultural congruence in development and leadership is more effective; that cultural difference can be stimulating and bring about positive change; that leadership is universal activity. Challenging the boundaries of sameness: leadership through valuing difference. & Bajunid., 2005; Sapre & Ranade, 2001; Walker, 2006; Wong, 2001), and faith (Shah, 2006). International Studies in Educational Administration. This search included empirical studies and theoretical pieces. The radical modernization of school and education system leadership in the United Arab Emirates: towards indigenized and educative leadership. Creating this culture of change by constantly challenging the status quo is a contact sport involving hard, labor-intensive work and a lot of time. Prosser, J. (1996). It would appear that teachers have one view, government another, and various segments of the community still another. From showcase to shadow: understanding dilemmas of managing workplace diversity. Despite the recognition that culture is an elusive and diverse concept, identifying some of the existing intellectual paradigms of culture is an important starting point. Inevitably therefore, design of the curriculum and its delivery will involve judgments not only about the relevant local culture and the degree of diversity, but also how far global or international cultural assumptions may be relevant. In , & It is "the way we do things around here" and often defined as 'the basic assumptions, norms and values and cultural artifacts of a school that . (1991). Bjerke, B. A preparation for school leadership: International perspectives. (1985). Stoll and Fink (1996) created a typology of five types of school culture: moving (dynamic and successful determination to keep developing), cruising (rather complacent, often with privileged learners who achieve despite little school dynamism), strolling (neither particularly effective or ineffective, but long term not keeping pace with change), (forthcoming). Sparrow, P. For example, culture is suggested to both shape and reflect values (Begley & Wong, 2001), philosophy (Ribbins & Zhang, 2004), gender (Celikten, 2005), religion (Sapre & Ranade, 2001), politics (Hwang, 2001), ethnicity (Bryant, 1998) and history (Wong, 2001). N. The notions of cultural diffusion and cultural fit assume that programs designed to take account of the cultural expectations and preferences of participants are more likely to lead to effective learning and resulting practice. The fourth theme addresses a key concern for both policy and practice which is the connection between culture and leaders preparation and development. This unique culture will reveal itself through a number of institutional characteristics: While these representations are identifiable and mostly tangible, the illusiveness of the concept of culture lies in the fact that it is an holistic concept which is more than the sum of these component parts. Cincinnati: South Western. Begley, P. A more extensive discussion of the variation in culture and practice internationally is offered by Foskett & Lumby (2003) and Lumby et al. Processual competencies, comprising intrapersonal competencies and cognitive competencies (2003, p.84), are also needed. (2005). (1986). The focus on culture at the macro or societal level is matched by concern with the micro or organizational level, the school level. A second view, though, is that of leaders as agents of cultural change, as discussed earlier in the chapter. Hallinger, P. Dorfman London: Falmer. Thirdly, it offers an international perspective by looking at the micro relationship of culture to the multiple identities and cultures of individuals and organizations. Despite the widespread acknowledgement that culture varies considerably and that leadership preparation and development could be adjusted in relation to the culturally embedded ontological, epistemological and axiological differences between cultures, the content, method of delivery and assessment of preparation and development shows relatively little variation throughout the world (Bush & Jackson, 2002). (2005). . But the real purpose of schools was, is, and always will be about learning.
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