This paper outlines a conceptual framework for a school as an organisation. In this, there are three
core elements: people (including students), power to energise or prevent action, and culture that is
constructed by a community’s members to reflect its norms, values and beliefs. However in this
construction some people are more influential than others. An organisation’s culture is sometimes
called a micro-culture to distinguish it from national or local community cultures. The curriculum, at
the core of a school’s purpose and process, is a cultural construction legitimated by the authority of
those responsible for a school’s management.
History
Citation
Management in Education, 2008, 22 (2), pp. 4-10
Published in
Management in Education
Publisher
SAGE Publications, British Educational Leadership, Management and Admin Society