ERIC Number: EJ1117000
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 24
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Specialization and School Organization: Investigating Pedagogic Culture
Hoadley, Ursula; Galant, Jaamia
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v37 n8 p1187-1210 2016
Drawing on Bernstein's notion of pedagogic culture or the "mode of being" of the school, this paper develops and uses a theoretical framework for the analysis of school organization that draws attention to specialization of instructional practice. An understanding of the ordering principles of the school emerges from the analysis, fundamentally understood as relations of power and control in the school as an organization. The paper considers how the ordering principles of the school are related to differential performance. The framework is deployed in an analysis of six primary schools located in poor communities in South Africa.
Descriptors: Specialization, School Organization, Investigations, Educational Practices, Interviews, Principals, Institutional Characteristics, Teacher Role, Professional Identity, Power Structure, Organizational Culture, Administrator Attitudes, Administrative Principles, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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