Search results for: Decision making

The current study investigates the types of principal mentoring/coaching programs delivered in Wyoming school districts, USA. The study also explores the areas of need perceived by principals at different levels of experience.

This article explores the educational decision-making process of one Mexican American family. The author takes a phenomenological approach to examine human agency in specific familial decisions about this child’s schooling that supports the parents’ own vision of education. This is a narrative inquiry based on interviews and observations that took place with one family and one focal child through the course of a calendar year. The author concludes that immigrant and other urban parents may be actively engaged in their children’s education, asking important and valid curriculum questions in ways that remain invisible to educators. The author suggests alternatives to deficit theories that render parents’ perspectives invisible.

In this article, the authors present a study that investigated intercultural teaching through teachers’ collaborative conversations about critical intercultural incidents in schools. The research was conducted in Canada. The data were generated through Web-CT and face-to-face dialogues between preservice, inservice, and university teachers. Findings focus on teachers’ intercultural decision making and were organized into two subgroups: (a) decisions that tend to involve reflecting (minding) and (b) decisions that involve responding processes.

This study investigates the internal structure, social meaning and potential resources for learning and development inherent in the planning and coordination of work in Interdisciplinary Teacher Teams (ITT) meetings. The focus of this study is on what teachers say in teams. Team-talk in two ITTs in two different lower secondary schools in Norway has been videotaped and analyzed. The study illustrates patterns in team-talk and conceptualizes the processes of decision-making that take place in these ITTs. It also identifies resources for learning and development inherent in certain forms of interaction.