The culture of Greek public school: a classification attempt based on the perspectives of the Educators
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The presented research was an attempt to map the culture of the Public School in Greece based on the perspectives of the Educators (Principals and Teachers). In a typological classification approach (to mainly answer the second of the three research questions: “The degree of influence of the elements that make up the specificity of the school culture in Greece during its formation is a criterion for the development of a typological -in the sense of orientations- classification model?”) two basic culture orientations emerged, the most prevalent one of the humancentric-open-collaborative culture and the rarest of the bureaucratic-closed culture, with a relative convergence between them in the perception of centralization. The position held by the educators in the school, the type and the size of the school (number of students and number of teachers) emerged as factors that influence -with not high certainty- the views and choices of educators regarding the orientations of school culture. The research on the subject was based on the theoretical model of the Competing Values of Cameron and Quinn (1999, 2006, 2011) concerning the four types of organizational culture, by adapted use of the Maslowski’s Questionnaire (2001) to explore the educators' perspectives about with the culture of their school, in a sample of schools of both Levels of School Education from all over Greece.
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Lalioti, E., & Koutouzis, M. (2023). The culture of Greek public school: a classification attempt based on the perspectives of the Educators. Hellenic Journal of Research in Education, 12(1), 118–146. https://doi.org/10.12681/hjre.32656
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