The Impact of Local Communities on the School Development - A Case Study Examining Expectations and Inclusion on a Systemic Level
Keywords:
school improvement; inclusion; community; systemic developmentAbstract
This paper presents one specific case of our school
development research project. It shed light on the issue of a local
community and the structure of expectations, which may limit the
school’s development and students’ development. Because this project
takes place in Scandinavia one needs first to understand the schooling
policy called “one school for all”, which stresses inclusion. In addition,
the phenomenon Langfeldt describes as “the quality of schools is created
locally” will be explained, as well as the nature of expectations. The data
collected is used to show the case’s limiting behavior, the balancing
expectation structure between the school and the local community.
Based on the conceptual model, both the preliminary SD-models told as
dynamic stories and a running SD-model representing the case reveal
that kind of behavior. To show the potential for the school development
we compare the survey and focus group results with those of other
control schools. Analyzing all schools will presumably show different
main drivers for balancing expectations. From earlier research and
literature analysis we derived indicators and characteristics for inclusive
schools with high shared expectations, and a collegial school culture that
are prerequisites for a school to be able to develop its potential.
https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.2.2
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