The distinctive features of school culture in Greece: theoretical approach and research documentation
Abstract
In the context of the research effort to map the culture of the Public School in Greece, elements of school culture were sought that concern on the one hand the functioning of the Greek social and educational system (common in public schools: perception of bureaucratic organization of the Greek public school and Greek education, views on the school, the education and the teacher) and on the other hand the peculiarity of each school unit and its relatively autonomous action (idiosyncratic/distinctive of each school unit: idiographic characteristics of the school unit, deviations in dealing with the human factor, in utilization of opportunities and in internal goal-setting). Τhe mixing of common and idiosyncratic elements was revealed, the unique combination of which gives the uniqueness of the composition of each school culture. In fact, the degree of presence of these elements in each of the two culture orientations that emerged (through a quantitative investigation of the possibility for a typological classification of the school culture in Greece) differs: the idiosyncratic elements outweigh the common ones in the predominant orientation of the anthropocentric-open-collaborative culture with more intense energy, while the common elements outweigh the idiosyncratic ones in the rarer orientation of the bureaucratic-closed culture, with more obvious sluggishness. The qualitative investigation of the subject was based on the Individual Case Study of 12 school units (special sample of the research), through a comparative and combined view per school unit of quantitative data (from the Questionnaire of the general sample) and qualitative data (from the individual and group Ιnterviews of educators: Principals and Teachers).
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Lalioti, E., & Koutouzis, M. (2024). The distinctive features of school culture in Greece: theoretical approach and research documentation. Hellenic Journal of Research in Education, 13(1), 169–189. https://doi.org/10.12681/hjre.37514
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