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Creativity and whole school change: An investigation of English headteacher practices.

Authors :
Thomson, Pat
Sanders, Ethel
Source :
Journal of Educational Change; Feb2010, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p63-83, 21p, 1 Chart
Publication Year :
2010

Abstract

Schools in England have been required to adopt and adapt an ongoing series of policy initiatives: some however are offered on an ‘opt-in’ basis. This paper examines one such ‘offer,’ that of Creative Partnerships, a programme which provides schools in designated deprived areas the opportunity to work with creative practitioners in order to change both classroom practice and whole schools. We report here on the snapshot phase of a national study, using a corpus of multi-method qualitative data from 40 schools. We suggest that headteachers saw different opportunities in the CP offer but what actually happened in the school related to three interwoven strands: the situatedness of the school, the headteacher’s stance towards change, and the architecture of change management. Our analysis, which highlights the ways in which many of the schools were unable to ‘spread and embed’ the pedagogical changes supported through CP, suggests that the majority of heads could benefit from involvement in explicit discussion about ‘unofficial’—and more democratic—approaches to leading and managing change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
13892843
Volume :
11
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Journal of Educational Change
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
47840887
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-009-9115-0