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ERIC Number: EJ805866
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0892-0206
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Finding the Missing Jigsaw Pieces: A New Model for Analysing School Culture
Kent, Peter
Management in Education, v20 n3 p24-30 2006
This article outlines a re-conceptualization of school culture that moves beyond the limited models used hitherto and illustrates its use in an analysis of the Sixth Form culture in a West Midlands school. The approach adopted here is based on a model of school culture that incorporates five distinctive pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that combine to form school culture--internal culture, internal sub-cultures, leadership and culture, external culture and cultural change. This paper also challenges the assumption that leaders have the ability to transform culture. It concludes that the relationship between leaders and transformation is much more problematic than writers such as Evans (2001) and Morgan (1997) appear to assume. (Contains 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Grade 6
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Language: English
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