Though it is laborious to examine the culture of the school, researchers have been endeavouring to empirically apprehend it since the 1960s. A variety of research jobs have been carried out, of various starting points, ways of materialization, and conclusions. The presented text indicates a way of classifying these studies according to the…

This contribution deals with the most important area of school operation, the learning and teaching environment. Several weighty circumstances of its functioning are herewith examined, such as the operation of the school as a manifestation of its culture, the relation between learning and teaching, and paradigms of the school as specific…

This contribution is another partial outcome of a three-year-project aimed at the recognition of the culture of Czech schools and its development strategies. The data we herewith interpret have been obtained through a questionnaire survey focusing on key areas of school operation (consent in main principles of school operation; creation and…

Innovations in the work of a teacher can be interpreted on three levels that at the same time stand for three possible perspectives of viewing innovations (after Blenkin, Edwards and Kelly, 1993, House, 1981). On the personality level our thinking directs to the perspective that is usually designated as biographic. On the level and perspective of…

Dealing with the results of an advanced stage of a three-year-study, this contribution is aimed at a detailed recognition of some areas of school operation, identified earlier by a preliminary research. Five areas, or subjects, are analyzed: consent in main principles of school operation, creation and attainment of a path the school is to walk on…

Education in the Czech Republic is at the onset of a very important reform. Its goals are outlined in the National Education Development Programme (so called "White Book," 2001) in quite a detailed manner. The reform should lead to the achievement of certain proportional and quantitative indicators and to the attainment of a target…

The main aim of the pre-research was to complete our knowledge about the topic concerned so that we could more eruditely commence a large and entire examination of the school culture and strategies for its development. We were particularly concerned with: (1) comparing our starting idea about the problem of the school culture and possibilities for…