Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE NEW AREAS IN THE SCOPE OF LIFELONG LEARNING
- PART TWO INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF LIFELONG LEARNING
- PART THREE LIFELONG LEARNING PRACTICES IN FAMILY AND SCHOOL BACKGROUND
- Chapter 7 Intergenerational cooperation and learning in families in Slovenia
- Chapter 8 Teachers – parents cooperation in school culture development
- Chapter 9 Why research at all? The possibilities for improving teaching practice
- Chapter 10 The role and significance of teamwork in the school environment
- Contributors
- Name index
- Subject index
Chapter 10 - The role and significance of teamwork in the school environment
from PART THREE - LIFELONG LEARNING PRACTICES IN FAMILY AND SCHOOL BACKGROUND
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE NEW AREAS IN THE SCOPE OF LIFELONG LEARNING
- PART TWO INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF LIFELONG LEARNING
- PART THREE LIFELONG LEARNING PRACTICES IN FAMILY AND SCHOOL BACKGROUND
- Chapter 7 Intergenerational cooperation and learning in families in Slovenia
- Chapter 8 Teachers – parents cooperation in school culture development
- Chapter 9 Why research at all? The possibilities for improving teaching practice
- Chapter 10 The role and significance of teamwork in the school environment
- Contributors
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
Introduction
There is a worldwide trend towards decentralization and increasing school autonomy as a means of improving the quality of education. When we look at the situation in present day Europe, the principle of school autonomy is accepted, at least regarding some aspects of management, almost everywhere in the continent (Šolska avtonomija v Evropi…, 2008).
When speaking of the decentralization of education systems, where the care and responsibility for particular organizational and curricular issues is transferred to local communities or to schools themselves, there are significant changes in the very foundations of the education systems as well.
The decentralization of an education system and greater school autonomy therefore affects a school's programs, organization, the situation for staff and pupils, and the educational processes within the school itself. The transfer of responsibilities to a school causes a change in leadership style to one of participative leadership (cf. Bush, 2006; Resman, 2004). The paradigm of a school as a learning organization, and teamwork, are gaining ground (Resman, 2002).
The purpose of this paper is to present one aspect of the above mentioned changes, namely to analyze the role and significance of teamwork in the contemporary school environment. Nowadays, teamwork commonly refers to the daily collaboration between groups of experts in schools or educational institutions. Its social, psychological and pedagogical (didactic, methodical) aspects have been described (cf. Resman, 2005).
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- Lifelong Learning TodayNew Areas, Contexts, Practices, pp. 137 - 156Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2013