An Organisational Learning Perspective on School Responses to Central Policy Initiatives

Abstract

Centralised educational restructuring initiatives result in a wide variation of responses in schools, some are quite productive, others are much less so. Interview data were collected from seventy‐two teachers and principals in six schools as a response to government restructuring policies in British Columbia, Canada, in order to better understand the reasons for such variation. An organisational‐learning perspective was used to guide the study. The results describe the processes used by teachers in pursuit of their own individual and collective learning. Also identified are school conditions which foster and inhibit these processes, conditions related to school vision, culture, structure, strategies and resources.

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