Educational Process: School Perspectives
This area studies the school as an organization — its structure, leadership, culture, and management.
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Scope
It covers school organization and governance, educational leadership and administration, school culture and climate, and school effectiveness and reform.
Sub-topics
- Student Characteristics
- School Councils
- Teacher Participation
- Advisory Committees
- Preschool Evaluation
- Search Committees (Personnel)
- Teacher Morale
- Program Attitudes
- Program Design
- Textbook Selection
- Student Government
- Student Teacher Attitudes
- Student Teacher Evaluation
- Teacher Background
- Teacher Selection
- Teacher Burnout
- Institutional Characteristics
- Academic Probation
- Academic Records
- Academic Standards
- School Activities
- School Violence
- School Turnaround
- Student Evaluation
- Curriculum Design
- Curriculum Development
- Guided Pathways
- Teacher Qualifications
- Teacher Recruitment
- Academic Rank (Professional)
- Majors (Students)
- Ancillary School Services
- Related Services (Special Education)
- Student Transportation
- Teacher Characteristics
- Grade Repetition
- Social Promotion
- Student Promotion
- Educational Environment
- Faculty College Relationship
- Program Content
- Attendance
- Attendance Patterns
- School Holding Power
- Student School Relationship
- Faculty Promotion
- Teacher Promotion
- Recordkeeping
- Student Records
- Admission (School)
- Admission Criteria
- Grade Inflation
- Program Implementation
- Instructional Leadership
- School Based Management
- Pass Fail Grading
- Beginning Teacher Induction
- Teacher Orientation
- Inservice Teacher Education
- Student Needs
- School Construction
- Case Records
- Advanced Placement Programs
- Age Grade Placement
- Flexible Scheduling
- Dress Codes
- Student Placement
- School Policy
- Textbook Evaluation
- Computer Oriented Programs
- School Expansion
- Organizational Climate
- Bus Transportation
- Organization Size (Groups)
- Organizational Communication
- Enrollment
- Program Development
- Confidential Records
- School Safety
- Emergency Programs
- Curriculum Implementation
- Teacher Student Ratio
- College Environment
- Teacher Attitudes
- Teacher Evaluation
- School Shops
- School Space
- Organizational Objectives
- Program Effectiveness
- Peer Evaluation
- Validated Programs
- Staff Development
- Teacher Discipline
- College Governing Councils
- College Planning
- College Enrollment
- Institutional Evaluation
- College Instruction
- Institutional Environment
- Faculty Development
- Faculty Organizations
- Graduation
- College Programs
- Teacher Collaboration
- Advanced Placement
- Comprehensive Programs
- Merit Rating
- Systems Development
- Critical Path Method
- Systems Approach
- Dropout Prevention
- Dropout Programs
- Student Adjustment
- Teacher Dismissal
- Student Teaching
- Scheduling
- Staff Role
- Course Selection (Students)
- Curriculum Evaluation
- Program Evaluation
- Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
- Program Improvement
- Experimental Programs
- Student College Relationship
- Teacher Role
- School Uniforms
- Institutional Mission
- School Orientation
- Noninstructional Responsibility
- Full Time Equivalency
- Improvement Programs
- School Maintenance
- Administration
- Administrative Change
- Administrative Organization
- Administrative Policy
- Administrative Principles
- Administrator Responsibility
- Administrator Role
- Management Systems
- Student Organizations
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Quality Circles
- Staff Utilization
- Faculty Recruitment
- Staff Orientation
- Organizational Change
- Publish or Perish Issue
- Staff Meetings
- Organizational Development
- School Organization
- Program Termination
- Administrator Attitudes
- Administrator Behavior
- Administrator Characteristics
- Administrator Evaluation
- Administrator Qualifications
- Nongraded Student Evaluation
- Management Development
- Faculty Evaluation
- Teacher Administrator Relationship
- Faculty Workload
- Teacher Responsibility
- School Catalogs
- School Registration
- Student Recruitment
- Enrollment Influences
- Student Attitudes
- Special Programs
- Teacher Leadership
- Student Role
- Career Pathways
Core questions
- How are schools organized as institutions?
- How does educational leadership work?
- What makes schools effective?
- How does school culture shape outcomes?
Key concepts
- School organization
- Educational leadership
- School culture
- Bureaucracy
- School effectiveness
- Governance
Key theories
- The school as organization
- Bidwell analysed the school as a distinctive formal organization, and Weber's bureaucracy framed its structure.
- The sociology of teaching
- Waller pioneered the study of schools as social worlds with their own culture and conflicts.
History
The organizational study of schools drew on Weberian bureaucracy and Waller's sociology of teaching, developing school-effectiveness, leadership, and reform research.
Debates
- Bureaucracy versus professional autonomy
- How to balance administrative control with teachers' professional discretion.
Key figures
- Willard Waller
- Max Weber
- Charles Bidwell
Related topics
Seminal works
- waller-1932
- weber-1922-school
- bidwell-1965
Frequently asked questions
- What does this area study?
- The school as an organization — its structure, leadership, culture, and management — i.e., educational administration and school organization.