Organizing for Instruction in Education Systems and School Organizations: How the Subject Matters

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Title: Organizing for Instruction in Education Systems and School Organizations: How the Subject Matters
Abstract/Description: Teaching, the core technology of schooling, is an essential consideration in investigations of education systems and school organizations. Taking teaching seriously as an explanatory variable in research on education systems and organizations necessitates moving beyond treating it as a unitary practice, so as to take account of the school subjects implicated in the work. Building on and extending earlier work, in this paper we examine subject matter differences in how one education system (Local Educational Agency) and its elementary schools organize for instruction in the core elementary school subjects. Specifically, this paper explores how education leaders and teachers in one local American school district interact with one another with respect to advice and information about teaching and learning in literacy, mathematics and science. We examine similarities and differences in school staff members’ advice and information networks and consider how these differences relate to the formal organizational infrastructure intended to support instruction.
Author/creator: Spillane, James P.; Hopkins, Megan
Date: 2013
In publication: Journal of Curriculum Studies
Volume: 45
Issue: 6
Pages: 721-747
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Keywords: instructional improvement; instructional systems; school organization; school subject matter; social networks
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 0022-0272
DOI: 10.1080/00220272.2013.810783
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
Citation: Spillane, J. P., & Hopkins, M. (2013). Organizing for Instruction in Education Systems and School Organizations: How the Subject Matters. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 45(6), 721–747. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2013.810783
Cited in: Critical Social Network Analysis as a Method for Examining How Power Mediates Improvement Efforts

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