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Full Length Research Paper
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Understanding school culture via analyzing organizational
stories
Vehbi Çelik
Fırat University, Faculty of Education, Department of
Educational Sciences, Elazığ, Turkey. E-mail:
vehbicelik@gmail.com.
Tel: 0090 4242377843.
Accepted 1 December, 2009 |
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Abstract |
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Schools have different cultures specific to themselves. School
culture represents dominant values, norms, assumptions, beliefs,
stories, ceremonies and symbols shared by the members of a
school. The objective in interpreting school culture is to
understand the stories and symbols created by the members of
this culture. Organizational story is a tool to analyze school
culture. This article aims to highlight the relationship between
organizational stories and school culture. This discussion has
been formed with respect to social constructivism, interpretive
organizational symbolism and critical theory. Social
constructivism, interpretive organizational symbolism and
critical theory constitute a multi-disciplinary perspective for
organizational story studies. In present research, qualitative
research method has been applied. The attempt has been to
analyze total 200 stories obtained from ten primary schools. It
has been detected that collected stories mostly reflected
negative school culture.
Key words:
School culture, organizational stories, organizational learning,
analysis organizational stories. |
