Teacher empowerment has been the subject of considerable educational research in recent years, but the capacity of school for organizational learning has received limited empirical attention. This study links these two research streams and identifies those dimensions of the capacity for organizational learning that are also the themes of school restructuring. Data for the study come from 24 sit…
Professional community is receiving markedly increased attention as part of both practitioner and scholarly efforts to promote improvements in instruction and student learning. Interest in this area joins two previously distinct literatures, one dealing with the benefits of communal school organization and another with enhanced teacher professionalism, to formulate a theoretical framework for a…
The focus of this introductory piece is twofold. First, we provide a short overview of same of the thinking that shaped the design of the Handbook. In establishing this context, we belive that readers will be better able to organize and make sense of the reviews that follow. For those who are interested, we have elaborated more fully on these ideas in introductory chapter of the Handbook itself…