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. In Educational Management & Administration, 26(1), 720. Everyone expects superiors to enjoy privileges, and status symbols are very important. Hwang, K. K. This is but one element of the interplay of competing values, priorities and hierarchies of power which influence culture. Lumby with Coleman (2007) identifies the emotional dimensions of rage, confusion, and anxiety in engaging with alternate cultures (DiTomaso & Hooijberg, 1996; Osler, 2004; Prasad & Mills, 1997; Rusch, 2004). Education researchers have also assumed such common attributes, for example, integrity (Begley, 2004; Bhindi & Duignan, 1997). Dorfman, P. W. Buckingham: Open University Press. Rather, in leadership every person has a role to play (Bryant, 1998, p. 12) undertaking a leadership act as need and personal understanding or skill require. Cultures which are comfortable with hierarchy or with the co-creation of knowledge may find affinities with process modes. | Contact us | Help & FAQs (Eds. Find Washington Middle School test scores, student-teacher ratio, parent reviews and teacher stats. In . Fernandez Managing diversity in transnational project teams. Story (1996). None is universally applicable nor comprehensive in its utility, yet they provide a range of perspectives to assist in clarifying this miasmic concept. (Eds. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. It has 525 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 13 to 1. , A. For most leaders this provides perhaps the most challenging dimension of leadership, for it is necessary to understand what those cultures are, why they exist and what aspects of them can or cannot, or should and should not, be subject to change to achieve the schools goals. The extent of this range of sub-cultures and counter-cultures and their positive or negative interactions will be a key issue for those in leadership within the school and may cause cultural management issues to be significant or insignificant within the whole management task. Leadership and intercultural dynamics. A. Preparing leaders involves considering the nature and impact of culture on the crafting of their development (for example, the curriculum or mode of delivery). Hodgkinson, C. 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. 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. (1991). Organisational Culture and Leadership. Cultural processes, the second element of a systems perspective, will be reflected in almost every dimension of the operation of the school. 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. This paper aims to explore how the formation of Palestinian teachers' professional identity was affected by their experiences during the violent conflict known as the Second Intifada (2000-2005) and its impact on the school social culture. Deal, T. M. Archer (1996, p. 1) contends that the notion of culture remains inordinately vague to the extent that poverty of conceptualization leads to culture being grasped rather than analysed. & Dorfman Bryant, M. Commentary. (2006). The School Culture Typology is a self-reflective tool and related activity designed to identify a school-wide perspective of the "type" of culture that exists in a school. Cranston, N. Macro Relations: Culture and Globalization, Culture and Leadership Global Perspectives, Preparing Leadership for Cultural Fluency, Culture and Leadership Issues and Future Research, International Handbook on the Preparation and Development of School Leaders, Lumby, Walker, Bryant, Bush & Bjork, forthcoming, House, Paul, Hanges, Ruiz-Quintanilla, Dorfman & Mansour 2004, http://www.thunderbird.edu/wwwfiles/ms/globe/Links/process.pdf, http://www.ucea.org/JRLE/pdf/vol1/issue1/Tippeconic.pdf, http://www.ucea.org/JRLE/pdf/vol1/issue1/Walker.pdf, conceptually, through the ideas that are valued and promoted, verbally, through the language, terminology and discourses in use, behaviorally, through the activities, social interactions and rituals that occur, visually, through the designs and styles adopted by the organization in its physical and material components. The third element of the system is the cultural output of the school. He created a series of descriptors of the culture of schooling with a particular focus on how key cultural characteristics equate to the absence of a productive learning environment. Stier insists that the latter cannot be achieved by content competencies alone. (Throughout, the term development is used to indicate both pre-appointment preparation and the post-appointment on-going development of leaders.) . Accultured, automatic, emotional responses preclude awareness of internalized culture. London: Sage. However, process models may not mesh with some cultures. Bjork, L. House, R. J. Not only may there be particular cultural assumptions about the relationship between staff and principal, the principal and regional/national authorities, but underpinning ontological assumptions may be distinctive. | Privacy policy (1971). J. (1986). , While the former classroom and lecture based model is widespread, they suggest that the process model of problem solving, mentoring and internship holds more hope of reflecting indigenous cultures. Two typologies are developed. However, Lumby et al. & Trond In Saudi Arabia a command system is accepted by culture and tradition and schools have, in any case, little power to take decisions. M. The former has received very little and the latter a good deal more attention (Gronn, 2001; Heck, 1996). P. W. Introduction. Day How principals manage ethnocultural diversity: Learnings from three countries. Those attempting to loosen the bonds of dominant cultures implicit in preparation and development programs research and write within the very dominant orientations they are trying to question (Gronn, 2001). The challenge for leaders, therefore, is to manage that change in terms of speed, direction or nature to support the organizations goals. Whittier Christian High School is a highly rated, private, Christian school located in LA HABRA, CA. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. (2001). (1991). Develops two "ideal culture" typologies (traditional and collegial) and discusses each for its heuristic, conceptual, methodological, and explanatory potential in school effectiveness and school . 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. 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. & Understanding international differences in culture would provide a basis for planning cultural fit in preparation and development programs. Preparing head teachers to respond to these challenges will be a significant challenge, therefore, and this is a focus later in the chapter. What is the significance of time is the organization most oriented towards the past, the present or the future? Kantamara, P. The key issue, of course, arising from globalization is that educational leaders will be faced increasingly with challenges to manage cultural change within their institution. , The second is that cultural plurality is the norm in many educational systems and within most individual schools and colleges. Coleman, C. In many ways this is the summation of the school and reflects its overall purpose and aims, which have two distinct dimensions. Powell, Farrar and Cohen (1985) used research from fifteen high schools to depict a culture of easy and uncritical acceptance of underachievement. you are agreeing to our use of cookies. & Stoll and Fink (1996) developed a model in determining the school culture. Ruiz-Quintanilla, A. Cultural differences can be observed at a range of organizational scales. (forthcoming) point up the greater sensitivity within some cultures where responsibility for success is group owned and/ or where maintaining face is a high priority. One of the best known is that applied to schools by Handy and Aitken (1986), which draws on observations across diverse organizations. Discernment of the publicly espoused culture, the culture implicit in practice and the desired culture will inevitably comprise a kaleidoscope of differing opinions and wishes reflecting the perspectives of the individuals responsible for the design and delivery of development. Instead there are history, context, process, interactivity, power relations and change. It will therefore involve engagement with the moral choices which lie at the heart of leadership. In an increasingly complex, diverse and unpredictable world, it is necessary for schools and those working with them . (2004). Ranade, M. The development of a professional school culture is an important approach for promoting teacher learning (Stoll & Kools, 2017). We must be aware that the spread of good practice internationally through the educational management literature, through the actions of international organisations such as UNESCO, and through the impact of professional development programmes, all of which are dominated by the perspectives of western educational management practitioners and academics, is in danger of presenting such a global picture of good practice. A tentative model and case study. , ), Educational management: Redefining theory, policy and practice (pp. (1996). His ideas were widely influential. Culture can take different forms. Archer, M. 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). In this line, a study . Understanding Schools as Organisations At the operational scale, the leader may focus on the culture within the institution in order to facilitate the achievement of institutional improvement, with culture conceptualized as an agent of change. Changing our schools : linking school effectiveness and school improvement. This paper's . London: Sage. The discourse of diversity: from biology to management. 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. Stoll and Fink identified 10 cultural norms that influence school improvement (see summary in Panel 2). Educational Management and Administration. They may also tackle the issue of how culture can be managed. 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 . ), The University Council for Educational Administration: Handbook of Research on the Education of School Leaders, Lumby, J. 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. (1996). The radical modernization of school and education system leadership in the United Arab Emirates: towards indigenized and educative leadership. (Litvin, 1997, pp. L. (Litvin, 1997, pp. There have, of course, been many more attempts to categorize school cultures, each offering a particular perspective to illuminate the nature and effects of culture. The key dimension of cultural scales is that they all exist synchronously, and they all interact upwards and downwards. R. J. (2005). C. Waters (1995) has identified three interwoven strands to globalization political globalization, economic globalization and cultural globalization. Cultural sensitivity demands consideration of how leadership is dispersed amongst the players within schools and the regional administration in a specific context before designing national and local systems in response. M. Beyond the school, though, lies a range of contextual cultures extending from the community within which the school lies to regional, national and international cultural contexts. & Organizational change, leadership and learning: culture as cognitive process. This search included empirical studies and theoretical pieces. Firstly, it examines key theoretical models and perspectives on culture. Hiltrop, J. The first relates to the ways the day-to-day operations of the school interact with the outside world. Hallinger, P. Each of these contexts has a culture that expresses itself conceptually, verbally, behaviorally and visually, and which is a product of the complex interaction of communities, socio-economic contexts and contrasts, ethnic and faith-based values and beliefs, and the history of that community as a whole and of the individuals within it. Consequently, a tendency to stereotype or discount alternative cultures must be halted by conscious, persistent effort (Lumby with Coleman, 2007). International Journal for Leadership in Education, 4(4), 2029. The Shopping Mall High School: Winners and Losers in the Educational Marketplace; National Association of Secondary School Principals (U.S.); National Association of Independent Schools. (2001). P., Glatter & & (1995). 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). Once the inputs are understood and the intended outputs identified, the major challenge for the school leader is then to organize and operationalize the processes within the school to enable pupils to travel from their cultural starting point to the output position the school seeks to achieve. The identification of the relevant culture and the group to which it is appropriate is predicated on the notion that humans can be classified, that a specific culture can be assigned to those in a particular geographic area or sharing a particular characteristic such as gender, language, ethnic background or religion. The typology tool was first developed in 1997 as a hands-on, practical method of defining for discussion purposes a school's stage or type of culture. She argues that a school's culture 'is shaped by the history, context, and the people in it ' (p. . M. (2007). Stoll and Fink (1992) think that school effectiveness should have done more to make clear how schools can become effective. However, the findings which result from research in one location may lead to indiscriminate transfer of assumptions, such as the primary location of leadership in the principal. While there is extensive research on the implications of assessment modes on school learners, including the relationship of assessment to variables such as gender and ethnicity, no similar body of research informs how we understand the assessment of leaders. Dorfman Washington, K. Wisdom gained, wisdom given: instituting PBL in a Chinese culture. 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. The Place of Culture in Social Theory. It would appear that teachers have one view, government another, and various segments of the community still another. Bjerke, B. In & Hallinger, P. Gronn, P. , & 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. International Studies in Educational Administration, 29(2) 3037. Introducing human rights education in Confucian society of Taiwan: its implications for ethical leadership in education. (1982). Clearly in these two instances, Western derived theories of autonomy, planning and change management are all thrown into question. Journal of School Leadership, Coleman, M. Lumby, J. However, a model which merely identifies cultural elements doesnt take account of the dynamic nature of culture and it is useful therefore to consider culture in the context of a systems perspective on organizations. Wang, H. For example, Walker, Bridges and Chan (1996) provide a rare example of research into the fit of a particular learning approach, problem-based-learning, to a specific cultural context, Hong Kong. Effective. There are no essential, innate and immutable characteristics of race, age, gender, disability or other demographic categories. From showcase to shadow: understanding dilemmas of managing workplace diversity. Bush, T. Cohen, D. K. This paper's focus is school culture as 10. Categorization of groups which might be assumed to hold a culture in common is therefore problematic. In this set article, Professor Louise Stoll explores the relationship between school culture and school improvement. A more flexible and subtle shaping will be needed. & Pupils, staff and school leaders have an on-going engagement with external stakeholders, from parents, to neighbors, to employers, to the media, and every one of those interactions conveys a message about the culture of the school and its underpinning values. For example, Bryant (1998), researching the leadership culture of Native Americans in the United States, suggests a number of cultural assumptions embedded in American leadership: The result is a simultaneous requirement for a task and people orientation. Sarason, S. Bhindi In a strict sense we might argue that the culture of every educational institution is unique, derived from the context in which the school operates and the values of those who have led or been part of the organization over time. , Two distinctive views of this connection can be identified (Collard, 2006). 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). Chan, B. Walker, A. Two typologies are developed. with Hallinger (2001) notes the changing aims of Asian education and specifically the global standards applied to assessing the quality of education in Hong Kong. Journal of Research in Leader Education, Taras, V. Hofstede, G. International Studies in Educational Administration. Educational Administration Quarterly, 39(1), 6894. This may be due in part to the fact that understanding culture and its connection to leadership in education is a poorly researched field. Cultural influences on organizational leadership. , Choices will continue as culture evolves and the perspectives of all players mutate over time. There is also a preference to face facts whether positive or negative. M. Conceptualizing the schools culture through such a systems approach helps clarify the challenges for school leaders in relation to culture. (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. Kaur Hayers, P. Each of the cultures influences and is influenced by each of the others. . (1998). London: Penguin. You can find out more in our Privacy Policy. A key influence on culture within and beyond schools has been globalization. London: Sage. Such reculturing (Fullan, 2001) is perhaps the biggest challenge to school leaders, though, for it will certainly generate conflict, contradiction and destabilization as part of the process as DiPaola (2003, p. 153) has indicated: According to Mortimore (1991), a lot of improvement efforts have failed because research results were not translated adequately into guidelines for educational practice. Throughout the world a great deal of effort and money has been expended in the name of educational change. The fourth theme addresses a key concern for both policy and practice which is the connection between culture and leaders preparation and development. & The values they espouse or eschew, the aspirations and achievements they have, and their contribution to communities (local, regional, national), whether positive or negative are the cultural product of the school. 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. The first proposes four 'ideal type' school cultures, based on two underlying domains; the second, a more elaborate and dynamic model, proposes two 'ideal type' school cultures, based on five underlying structures. From the approach adopted for teaching and learning, to the cultural values espoused in the pastoral and ethical functions of the school, to the relative value ascribed to possible destinations for pupils beyond school, the fabric of school life will be imbued by these cultural processes. (2007). In Walker, J. A similar situation is the case in Norway and in Japan (Moller, 2000). (2003). (1990). Such simple categorizations provide briefly interesting analytical tools to assist school leaders in gaining an initial understanding of their school culture, but are of limited wider utility. The recent emphasis has been on achieving standards through managing schools, teachers and the teaching process. typology of Rosenholtz (1989) differentiates static and dynamic school culture. Two examples will suffice to illustrate this, though. , 143158). , In part this reflects a revolt against the perceived global homogenization of leadership. If leaders believe that a dominant culture is identifiable or achievable, and that it is a single, stable and unifying phenomenon, then changing it becomes a matter of choice, but relatively straightforward and without any moral ramifications. Jackson, D. The second has a similar perspective but rather than losing the identities of existing cultures in the melting pot sees the retention of plural cultures within education which can enrich and reinforce each other what is sometimes described as the salad bowl approach to cultural change. 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. Journal of Educational Administration, 334(5), 1231. 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. This may be interpreted in several ways ranging from the operational to the political. (2004). The first is that culture is neither unitary nor static (Collard & Wang, 2005), and while change may be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, trends and developments in internal and external influences will move the culture forward. (2007). See all results for "" Log In La Habra High School . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Leader and leadership development may therefore be as effectively focused on teacher leaders as on principals in these two countries. These are the cultural, verbal, visual and behavioral components of the school in action through which a wide range of cultural messages and aims will be delivered. Foskett, N. (2006). More research of this kind, exploring fit not only to the dominant culture of the nation/region, but also fit to the multiple cultures within the nation or region would provide a potentially powerful antidote to programs which are currently not culturally inclusive. (1997).Organizational behaviour (3rd ed.). Their description of each provides significant detail of the culture of the type. Exploring the cultural context of school improvement in Thailand. In parallel, preparation and development sometimes include an element of raising awareness of cultures deemed to be other than that of the majority or the dominant group, what Stier (2003, p. 84) refers to as content-competencies, generally targeted at increasing knowledge of minority groups within the region or nation. Towards a framework of investigating leadership praxis in intercultural. Another output lies in the cultural characteristics and values of the young people who are the product of the school once they have completed their time there. Ali, A. Processes and structures designed for a time that has passed are no longer appropriate in a rapidly changing society.
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