Organizational learning within the context of the functioning of educational teams: the progressive emergence of a professional metamorphosis

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Autor(a) principal: Pinheiro, Generosa
Data de Publicação: 2024
Outros Autores: Alves, José Matias
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/44104
Resumo: Responding to contemporary global challenges will require quality education, which presupposes changes in schools’ organizational structures, new roles and mentalities for the players involved and a culture of learning at the different levels of organizations. In this regard, we strive to understand how changing certain organizational structures, more specifically the organization of teaching by educational teams operating as professional learning communities, can have an impact on individual, collective and organizational learning at schools. To this end, we have adopted a qualitative research paradigm, put into operation through a case study, based on a qualitative-quantitative approach. We combined a descriptive statistical approach consisting of two questionnaires, which have been decoded and interpreted both structurally and semantically, with a content analysis of interviews, focused discussion groups and field diary notes, to examine a number of unique contexts and the perspectives of individual players. We concluded that a change in organizational structures is an essential but insufficient condition. What is needed is a change in the players’ beliefs and collaboration that provides deep learning. As such, a substantial change in education at the level of educational organization requires joint action at the levels of structure, middle leadership, beliefs and professional cultures.
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title Organizational learning within the context of the functioning of educational teams: the progressive emergence of a professional metamorphosis
spellingShingle Organizational learning within the context of the functioning of educational teams: the progressive emergence of a professional metamorphosis
Pinheiro, Generosa
Educational teams
Learning communities
School cultures
Organizational structures
Shared leadership
title_short Organizational learning within the context of the functioning of educational teams: the progressive emergence of a professional metamorphosis
title_full Organizational learning within the context of the functioning of educational teams: the progressive emergence of a professional metamorphosis
title_fullStr Organizational learning within the context of the functioning of educational teams: the progressive emergence of a professional metamorphosis
title_full_unstemmed Organizational learning within the context of the functioning of educational teams: the progressive emergence of a professional metamorphosis
title_sort Organizational learning within the context of the functioning of educational teams: the progressive emergence of a professional metamorphosis
author Pinheiro, Generosa
author_facet Pinheiro, Generosa
Alves, José Matias
author_role author
author2 Alves, José Matias
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pinheiro, Generosa
Alves, José Matias
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Educational teams
Learning communities
School cultures
Organizational structures
Shared leadership
topic Educational teams
Learning communities
School cultures
Organizational structures
Shared leadership
description Responding to contemporary global challenges will require quality education, which presupposes changes in schools’ organizational structures, new roles and mentalities for the players involved and a culture of learning at the different levels of organizations. In this regard, we strive to understand how changing certain organizational structures, more specifically the organization of teaching by educational teams operating as professional learning communities, can have an impact on individual, collective and organizational learning at schools. To this end, we have adopted a qualitative research paradigm, put into operation through a case study, based on a qualitative-quantitative approach. We combined a descriptive statistical approach consisting of two questionnaires, which have been decoded and interpreted both structurally and semantically, with a content analysis of interviews, focused discussion groups and field diary notes, to examine a number of unique contexts and the perspectives of individual players. We concluded that a change in organizational structures is an essential but insufficient condition. What is needed is a change in the players’ beliefs and collaboration that provides deep learning. As such, a substantial change in education at the level of educational organization requires joint action at the levels of structure, middle leadership, beliefs and professional cultures.
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