(1998). eBook ISBN: 9780203872239 Adobe 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. Diversity and the demands of leadership. & Notwithstanding these different positions, knowledge of how leadership is conceptualized and enacted locally is a sine qua non of successful design. It involves consideration of fit to the culture of each individual school but also the necessity to equip leaders to engage with their own organizations culture, to sustain, develop or challenge it. The Leadership Quarterly, 7(2), 163187. Skip to page content. The model identifies seven dimensions of organizational context that shape resultant culture, based on a series of key questions: These questions provide a helpful analytical framework, which can be applied in most educational contexts, and which seeks to identify the underlying values and beliefs within a 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. How principals manage ethnocultural diversity: Learnings from three countries. Sarason (1971, 1996), writing of US schools, was one of the earliest to insist that improving schools was primarily a question of changing culture. 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. None is universally applicable nor comprehensive in its utility, yet they provide a range of perspectives to assist in clarifying this miasmic concept. Hallinger (2001, p. 65) suggests that the primary purpose of schooling is the onward transmission of established culture and values between generations. & 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. Two typologies are developed. These can have negative or positive dimensions the media report of the schools excellent examination results will convey a different message about the schools culture than a local reputation for rowdy behavior by the schools pupils during lunchtime breaks. Published 1996. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 4(4), 293296. (forthcoming) provide a strong warning that collective cultures as well as honoring hierarchical superiority may also have an acute need to maintain self-esteem. Cultural complexity offers only multiple complications in assessing fit, not safe generalized conclusions. Sarason, S. (2007). (1986). . We present here a small number of examples in order to illustrate a range of typologies. London: Falmer. The challenge for educational leaders is to recognize and conceptualize each of these cultural realms and understand how it impacts on and provides implications for their own school. 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. 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). 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. Jackson, D. We would also suggest that pupils, although seldom asked, would hold . You can find out more in our Privacy Policy. However, over a decade ago, Heck (1996) suggested that advances in statistical methods held some hope of achieving conceptual and metric equivalence in investigating theoretical models across nations and within organizations. Daily challenges for school leaders.I In 206207), There are no essential, innate and immutable characteristics of race, age, gender, disability or other demographic categories. Bryant, M. 143158). The first approach led to selection of 25 most frequently found publications on the school as learning organisation and/or learning school. We have looked at three theoretical aspects of culture here. Bjerke, B. This suggests that they are prepared, appointed and developed to reflect a specific set of values and beliefs and are expected to simply transmit those imposed and inherited values to staff and to pupils within their institution. (2001). , 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. Subordinates expect superiors to act autocratically. In crafting school culture, school leaders (principals, teachers, and parents) act as models, potters, poets, actors, and healers. (Eds. , ), Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: the GLOBE study of 62 Societies (pp. Litvin (1997) attacks such essentialism, ascribing the taxonomy of groups to a Western Platonic purportedly scientific paradigm. As in the acquisition of any language, fluency can only be achieved by practice and not just by theory (Taras & Rowney, 2007). School administration in China: a look at the principals role. DiPaola, M.F. (1996). Walker, J. Educational Management & Administration, Billot, J. & 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 . Cross-cultural understandings of leadership: themes from Native American interviews. (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. In many countries the principal may indeed be key. School culture can have an positive. The implication is that if leadership preparation and development is to aspire to cultural fit, a high degree of sophistication is required. Global forces, national mediations and the management of educational institutions. Processes and structures designed for a time that has passed are no longer appropriate in a rapidly changing society. Story ), The University Council for Educational Administration: Handbook of Research on the Education of School Leaders, Lumby, J. , 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. Hallinger, P. In , & Whittier Christian High School is a highly rated, private, Christian school located in LA HABRA, CA. Educational Management & Administration, 26(1), 720. While awareness of and reflection on hegemonic theory may be of use, its global dominance in preparation and development seems inappropriate on a number of grounds. ), Managing the Organizational Melting Pot: Dilemmas of Workplace Diversity (pp. G, Crow Rather, cultural competency, the ability to recognize, analyze and engage purposefully with culture at the macro and micro levels is a foundational skill, which positions educational leadership as critical contributors to shaping society and not just the school. Mller Washington, K. Kantamara, P. you are agreeing to our use of cookies. | Promotions Hiltrop, J. Lumby, J. For example, the East or the West continue to be used as descriptive terms for cultural groups in the context of considering leadership. 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. Secondly, it considers the important issue of the macro relationship of culture and globalization. Consequently, although there is relatively little empirical data on which to draw, the issue of fit between culture and the conception, development and enactment of leadership has become a key concern. | Terms & conditions. 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. (2000) Leadership and Culture in Chinese Education. & Gender and race in leadership preparation: a constrained discourse. & Organisational Culture and Leadership. Leadership and culture: Conceptual and methodological issues in comparing models across cultural settings. A perspective on women principals in Turkey. , & Duke, D. L. London: Sage. Bolam (1995). Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 14(1), 3035. 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. One dimension of fit may relate to ease with receiving positive and negative feedback and from whom. Subordinates expect superiors to act autocratically. Mills 5167). International Journal for Leadership in Education, 4(4), 367381. Stoll and Fink (1992) think that school effectiveness should have done more to make clear how schools can become effective. (Eds. As Foskett and Lumby (2003, p. 8) indicate: By continuing to use the site M. International Studies in Educational Administration, Thomas, D. C. N. M. Walker, A. There have been strong responses to the lack of critical awareness of these processes. In fact, Hofstedes work shows very great variation within regions. Sapre and Ranade (2001, p. 379) deplore the fact that there is very little in modern Indian education that is truly rooted in the culture, tradition and genius of its people. 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. 6886). 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. | How to buy The first is the blending of western (or, more correctly, exogenous) cultural values with existing cultures to generate a new cultural environment, a model sometimes described as the melting pot perspective. Fullan, M. It would appear that teachers have one view, government another, and various segments of the community still another. An international perspective on leadership preparation. 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). Leading and Managing Education: International Dimensions. 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 this set article, Professor Louise Stoll explores the relationship between school culture and school improvement. Bhindi Culture is so rooted in all aspects of human activity that its all encompassing nature may limit its usefulness in practice to conceptualizing leadership and shaping the development of leaders. (2001). Rusch, E. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Cardno, C. Deal, T. (Hoppe, 2004, p. 333). Cohen, D. K. London: Penguin. & , The chapter aims to avoid becoming ensnared in the complexity of culture by confining its discussion to a sample of illustrative examples of both simple and complex conceptualizations. Gupta & 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. Walnut Elementary 625 N. Walnut St. La Habra, CA 90631 Phone: 562-690-2369. Cross-cultural issues in development of leaders. Those undertaking preparation for development may have differing value priorities which are culturally shaped. , & 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. , (2001). The radical modernization of school and education system leadership in the United Arab Emirates: towards indigenized and educative leadership. Changing the culture becomes merely a question of technical fit, of shaping leadership development to align it to local culture. (1996). , & 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 culture of a school is one of its critical organizational characteristics. (2006). Research in such contexts is still not extensive, although Billot, Goddard and Cranston (2007) report the findings of an international study which explores how leadership in successful multi-cultural schools is exercised in three different national settings (Canada, New Zealand and Australia). London: Sage. 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. K. At the interface with exogenous and endogenous cultures, preparation and development reflect choices which are more than technical. 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. School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Bottery asserts that there is a risk through this that there may be emerging a perspective that defines what looks increasingly like a global picture of management practice. Identity based and reputational leadership: an American Indian approach to leadership. Brunner The adoption of similar sets of competences, for example, reflects to some degree airbrushing out the influence of local culture (Davis, 2001; Macpherson, Kachelhoffer & El Nemr, 2007). The dynamic culture of Here we shall consider three of these perspectives which we believe provide diverse insights reflections on the tangible components of culture and a number of models of those components in action; consideration of the organizational scales at which culture is important in educational contexts; and a systems view of culture which enables the areas of potential management influence of culture in schools to be identified. 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. P.J. Cranston, N. Day Journal of Educational Administration, 334(5), 1231. 330). London: McGraw-Hill. Journal of Educational Administration, 34(5), 7497. C Such a knowledge base would allow theory to be developed in a more culturally aware way. According to Mortimore (1991), a lot of improvement efforts have failed because research results were not translated adequately into guidelines for educational practice. It has 525 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 13 to 1. Research concerning leadership in multinational corporations defines three components of cultural fluency, cognitive complexity, emotional energy and psychological maturity (Iles & Kaur Hayers, 1997, p. 105). Culture also impacts on delivery. School culture is the set of shared values, beliefs and norms that influence the way educators and administrators think, feel and behave in schoolplace. (2002). In part this reflects a revolt against the perceived global homogenization of leadership. Training and educating principals for such cultural literacy is the focus of later sections in this chapter. Sarason, S. From showcase to shadow: understanding dilemmas of managing workplace diversity. DiTomaso, N. One of the best known divisions was by Stoll and Fink (2000), which distinguishes mobile, . Women and leadership: The views of women who are . C. & Preparation of aspiring principals in Singapore: a partnership model. . 8-9; Stoll and Fink 1995). Very many illustrations could be offered of the different expectations and practice of leadership throughout the world. He also insisted that the complex creation of culture was the result of multiple inputs from staff, learners and the wider community. Jacky Lumby The capacity of any individual or group to engineer culture is questionable (Adler, 1997; Morgan, 1986). ), Leading Schools in a Global Era: A Cultural Perspective, Peabody Journal of Education, Litvin, D. R. Where preparation and development engage at all with culture, the current prevalence of content-competencies (Stier, 2003, p. 84) does not begin to equip leaders with the skills needed to relate to exogenous and endogenous cultures. Systems theory enables us to conceptualize every school and educational organization as being characterized 1) by a range of inputs, 2) by the processes in operation within the school, and 3) by a set of outputs and in each of these three elements of the system we can identify culture as a key component. She argues that a school's culture 'is shaped by the history, context, and the people in it ' (p. . ), Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: the GLOBE study of 62 Societies (pp. (1997).Organizational behaviour (3rd ed.). Watch Events 3 Live Search by typing your school, event, association. School culture and culture in general are often labeled as self-evident. 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. P. J. Conflict and change. Head teachers in rural China: aspects of ambition. (1991). We need to work in organisations, collectively developing an understanding of where they are going and what is important. Educational Administration Quarterly, 39(1), 6894. (2001). And, of course, the selection of principals by governors, education boards or regional/national education authorities is a key mechanism through which the cultural inputs to a school will be strongly controlled. & A second view, though, is that of leaders as agents of cultural change, as discussed earlier in the chapter. 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. 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. (Eds. Begley, P. Leadership and intercultural dynamics. In others, variation is considerable and the primary drive to develop teaching and learning, attainment and achievement may be located elsewhere. (Eds. As a consequence, leaders must be equipped to work with both imported as well as indigenous culture. The Place of Culture in Social Theory. Hoyle, E. 210223). International Studies in Educational Administration. If culture embeds, among other things, power relations, then the issue of programs matching or challenging dominant cultures becomes a matter of negotiating competing notions of appropriate power relations, political and social structures. Analysis of the content of programs might suggest that such commitment is largely camouflage for neglect of such values (Lopez, 2003; Rusch, 2004). Moral leadership in education: an Indian perspective. Transactional leadership, often viewed negatively in many Anglophone countries, may be a more appropriate theoretical basis in many contexts. The processes of globalization have been a significant feature of all dimensions of society and economy over the last three decades. In A second early example from the US of a description of a cultural type was the shopping mall school. 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. International Journal of Educational Management, 5(3), 45. (2005). R. J. (2001, October). Journal of Research in Leader Education, Taras, V. For example, being dynamic and dependable, encouraging and displaying integrity were agreed to be positive leader attributes across all the nations involved. A key influence on culture within and beyond schools has been globalization. This is but one element of the interplay of competing values, priorities and hierarchies of power which influence culture. Schools with strong, positive cultures feature service-oriented staffs, a collegial ambience, celebratory rituals, supportive social networks, and humor. Rejection of the cultural assumptions in preparation and development programs abound on the grounds of gender (Brunner, 2002; Coleman, 2005; Louque, 2002; Rusch, 2004), ethnicity (Bryant, 1998; Tippeconic, 2006), national culture (Bjerke & Al-Meer, 1993; Hallinger, Walker. One of the best known is that applied to schools by Handy and Aitken (1986), which draws on observations across diverse organizations. Powell, Farrar and Cohen (1985) used research from fifteen high schools to depict a culture of easy and uncritical acceptance of underachievement. (1996). (2006). Changing the culture of a school or of a leadership development program is therefore not a finite endeavor. International Journal of Leadership In Education, 4(4),297307. , (2004), Understanding valuation processes; exploring the linkage between motivation and action. Changing Our Schools: Linking School Effectiveness and School Improvement. (Eds. Research has shown the principal to be a significant factor in school effectiveness (Hallinger & Heck, 1999). (2004). Education. A tentative model and case study. M. 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. (2001). as cited in Stoll, Fink & Earl, 2003, p. 132). Scheins model provides a greater level of sophistication by focusing on a challenging interrogation of the culture of the school and linking culture more strongly to underpinning values and beliefs. & Cincinnati: South Western. Accultured, automatic, emotional responses preclude awareness of internalized culture. In Stoll, L. 2 C. BELLEI ET AL. The concept of culture has appeared frequently in analyses of both. These may be through processes of exclusion or processes of inclusion, resulting in a relatively homogeneous or diverse student body, but in either case the outcome will be a pupil profile which reflects a particular set of cultural characteristics. Unproductive, toxic schools have fragmented staffs, eroding goals, and negative, hopeless atmospheres. & Walker, A. Cultural isolation is difficult, even in societies which seek strongly to conserve traditional cultural values within their educational systems. Lakomski, G. Each of the cultures influences and is influenced by each of the others. Such decisions will be founded on a concept of leadership that embraces far more than a capacity to competently manage the technical aspects of instruction.
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