scholarly journals School climate and school culture: A framework for creating school as a safe and stimulating environment for learning and development

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emina Hebib ◽  
Vesna Zunic-Pavlovic
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
School Culture ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
School Environment ◽  
School Safety ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
School Climate And Culture ◽  
Definition Of

School, as an educational institution, represents an important context for the development of children and young people. It is therefore necessary to shape it as a safe and stimulating environment for student learning and development. This paper offers a definition of the concept of school as a safe and stimulating environment for student learning and development, based on a review of academic and scholarly papers from a variety of disciplines and areas of practice. The content and meaning of the concept of school safety have been considered from the physical and psychological aspects, while the concept of school as a stimulating learning environment has been specified in terms of four dimensions - the physical, psychological, social and cognitive school environment. It is pointed out that these concepts and the phenomena they denote tend to be interpreted and analysed as the components or dimensions of broader concepts, namely, school climate and school culture. One section of the paper is therefore devoted to explaining these concepts, as well as considering their interrelationship and the importance of creating a positive and stimulating school climate and culture for institutional practice. The conclusion further emphasises that creating school as a safe and stimulating environment for student learning and development, as well as creating positive and supportive school climate and culture, is an extremely complex process that entails changes in the content and structure of the school institution as a whole.

scholarly journals Manajemen strategik peningkatan mutu lembaga pendidikan Muhammadiyah di Kabupaten Gunungkidul

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Ahmad Nurdin Kholili ◽  
Syarief Fajaruddin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
School Environment ◽  
School Quality ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Definition Of

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: 1.) Mengkaji implementasi manajemen strategik peningkatan mutu lembaga pendidikan Muhammadiyah di SMP Al-Mujahidin dan SMP Muhammadiyah Semin Kabupaten Gunungkidul; dan 2.) Menemukan formulasi alternatif manajemen strategik lembaga pendidikan Muhammadiyah dalam meningkatkan mutu sekolah di Kabupaten Gunungkidul. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian studi kasus yang bersifat kualitatif, dengan mengunakan metode observasi, interview dan dokumentasi terhadap dua lembaga pendidikan Muhammadiyah. Teknik analisis data menggunakan teori Miles dan Huberman dengan tahapan reduksi data, penyajian data dan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa implementasi manajemen strategik yang dilakukan oleh SMP Muhammadiyah Al-Mujahidin dan SMP Muhammadiyah Semin melibatkan semua stakeholder. Sekolah terlebih dahulu merumuskan visi misi sekolah dengan mempertimbangkan faktor internal dan eksternal lingkungan sekolah, dilanjutkan merumuskan tujuan dan target mutu sekolah diikuti dengan penentuan strategi yang akan digunakan oleh sekolah demi terealisasinya semua target mutu yang disepakati. Implementasi strategi yang dilakukan SMP Muhammadiyah Al-Mujahidin dan SMP Muhammadiyah Semin dalam meningkatkan mutu sekolah adalah dengan menjabarkan dan melaksanakan semua strategi yang telah dirumuskan dalam bentuk kegiatan-kegiatan terprogram dan terukur. Evaluasi strategi yang digunakan SMP Muhammadiyah Al-Mujahidin dan SMP Muhammadiyah Semin adalah melalui rapat formal maupun informal. AbstractThe objective of the present study is to: 1.) Review the implementation of strategic management for the improvement of the Muhammadiyah educational institution quality in the context of Al-Mujahidin Junior High School and Muhammadiyah Junior High School Semin, the Regency of Gunungkidul; and 2.) Identify the alternative formula for the implementation of the strategic management within the Muhammadiyah educational institution quality toward the improvement of the school quality in the Regency of Gunungkidul. The nature of the study is qualitative research using observation, interview, and documentation with two Muhammadiyah educational institutions as the objects of the study. Throughout the data analysis, the technique that has been implemented is the data analysis technique proposed by Miles & Huberman under the following sequence: (1) data reduction; (2) data presentation; and (3) conclusions. The results of the study show that the implementation of strategic management by the Al-Mujahidin Junior High School and the Muhammadiyah Junior High School Semin has involved all stakeholders. The two Muhammadiyah educational institutions formulate the school vision and the school mission in the very first place with considerations toward the internal factors and the external factors of the school environment. Then, the two Muhammadiyah educational institutions proceed to the formulation of the objectives and the targets for the school quality followed by the definition of the school strategy in achieving all of the quality targets that have been formulated. Furthermore, the strategic management by the Al-Mujahidin Junior High School and the Muhammadiyah Junior High School Semin in improving the school quality is elaborating and implementing all strategies that have been formulated in the form of programmed and measured activities. The strategies will be evaluated by the Al-Mujahidin Junior High School and the Muhammadiyah Junior High School Semin through the mechanism of both formal and informal meetings.

Investigating associations between school climate and bullying in secondary schools: Multilevel contextual effects modeling

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiaki Konishi ◽  
Yasuo Miyazaki ◽  
Shelley Hymel ◽  
Terry Waterhouse
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
School Environment ◽  
School Safety ◽  
Contextual Effects ◽  
School Level ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Being Bullied ◽  
Student Reports

This study examined how student reports of bullying were related to different dimensions of school climate, at both the school and the student levels, using a contextual effects model in a two-level multilevel modeling framework. Participants included 48,874 secondary students (grades 8 to 12; 24,244 girls) from 76 schools in Western Canada. Results revealed significant associations for student perceptions of all school-climate dimensions at the student level and for a majority of the aggregated school-climate dimensions (except adult-related variables) at the school level in relation to bullying, when each school-climate dimension was included as the sole predictor in the contextual effects model. When examining the roles of all school-climate dimensions together, results showed that, at the school level, the effects of three school-climate variables – peer support, discipline/fairness/clarity of rules, and school safety – remained significant predictors of being bullied and bullying others, controlling for the effects of other school-climate dimensions at both the school and the student levels. The implications of these findings for building a safe and caring school environment are discussed.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN BUDAYA DAN IKLIM SEKOLAH

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 467-483
Author(s):  
ASTUTI Astuti
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
School Culture ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
School Climate And Culture ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Culture And Climate ◽  
School Culture And Climate

Abstrct: This paper discusses the development of school culture and climate. Conducive school climate and culture is characterized by the creation of a safe, comfortable, and orderly learning environment so that learning can take place effectively. Conducive school climate and culture are so important that learners feel happy and positive about their schools, so that teachers feel valued, and that parents and communities feel welcome and engage. This can happen through the creation of positive norms and habits, harmonious relationships and cooperation based on mutual respect. The school climate can basically be put forward as an organizational climate that occurs in a school. School climate is the result of interaction media in school organizations. Keywords: Cultural development and school climate.

LA ORIENTACIÓN FAMILIAR EN LA SOLUCIÓN DE PROBLEMAS Y EL ANÁLISIS DE RIESGO EN LA EDUCACIÓN DE LOS ESCOLARES

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Rovinson Yovanni Zambrano Zambrano ◽  
Oscar Santiago Barzaga Sablón
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Family Counseling ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Education Of Students

La vinculación entre la familia y la escuela es esencial para la educación de los estudiantes de cualquier institución educativa. Entre sus funciones más importantes se ubica, la prevención de las posibles conductas desviadas en el ámbito escolar. El presente estudio aborda el comportamiento de la función prevención y solución de problemas de la orientación familiar, desde el análisis de riesgo; al caracterizar su estado actual y proponer una estrategia para el perfeccionamiento de la orientación familiar, para ello se utilizaron fundamentalmente métodos teóricos de investigación como el método hipotético deductivo, la abstracción científica, el método comparativo, el enfoque sistémico estructural funcional y en calidad de complemento, el diagnóstico. Ellos permitieron arribar a los resultados que presentamos, el estudio es descriptivo y causal. Específicamente el análisis toma como estudio de caso las familias de los estudiantes de la unidad educativa “Cecilia Velázquez Murillo” de la ciudad de Jipijapa en el Ecuador. PALABRAS CLAVE: Orientación familiar; solución de problemas; riesgo en la familia.  FAMILY COUNSELING IN THE SOLUTION OF PROBLEMS FROM RISK ANALYSIS  ABSTRACT  The link between family and school is essential for the education of students of any educational institution. Among its most important functions is the prevention of possible deviant behaviors in the school environment. The present study addresses the behavior of the prevention and problem solving function of family counseling, from the risk analysis; by characterizing their current state and proposing a strategy for the improvement of family orientation, fundamentally theoretical research methods such as the hypothetical deductive method, scientific abstraction, the comparative method, the functional structural systemic approach and as a complement were used., the diagnosis. They allowed us to arrive at the results we present, the study is descriptive and causal. Specifically, the analysis takes as case study the families of the students of the educational unit "Cecilia Velázquez Murillo" of the city of Jipijapa in Ecuador. KEYWORDS: Orientation; problem solving; risk in the family.

scholarly journals Off-Shell Noether Currents and Potentials for First-Order General Relativity

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Merced Montesinos ◽  
Diego Gonzalez ◽  
Rodrigo Romero ◽  
Mariano Celada
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Vector Fields ◽  
Killing Vector ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Killing Vector Fields ◽  
Arbitrary Vector ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
First Order ◽  
Direct Form ◽  
Definition Of

We report off-shell Noether currents obtained from off-shell Noether potentials for first-order general relativity described by n-dimensional Palatini and Holst Lagrangians including the cosmological constant. These off-shell currents and potentials are achieved by using the corresponding Lagrangian and the off-shell Noether identities satisfied by diffeomorphisms generated by arbitrary vector fields, local SO(n) or SO(n−1,1) transformations, ‘improved diffeomorphisms’, and the ‘generalization of local translations’ of the orthonormal frame and the connection. A remarkable aspect of our approach is that we do not use Noether’s theorem in its direct form. By construction, the currents are off-shell conserved and lead naturally to the definition of off-shell Noether charges. We also study what we call the ‘half off-shell’ case for both Palatini and Holst Lagrangians. In particular, we find that the resulting diffeomorphism and local SO(3,1) or SO(4) off-shell Noether currents and potentials for the Holst Lagrangian generically depend on the Immirzi parameter, which holds even in the ‘half off-shell’ and on-shell cases. We also study Killing vector fields in the ‘half off-shell’ and on-shell cases. The current theoretical framework is illustrated for the ‘half off-shell’ case in static spherically symmetric and Friedmann–Lemaitre–Robertson–Walker spacetimes in four dimensions.

Does School Climate Mean the Same Thing in the United States as in Mexico? A Focus on Measurement Invariance

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathan D. Shukla ◽  
Tracy E. Waasdorp ◽  
Sarah Lindstrom Johnson ◽  
Mercedes Gabriela Orozco Solis ◽  
Amanda J. Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School Climate ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Students ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Partial Invariance ◽  
The U.S

School climate is an important construct for guiding violence prevention efforts in U.S. schools, but there has been less consideration of this concept in its neighboring country Mexico, which has a higher prevalence of violence. The U.S. Department of Education outlined a three-domain conceptualization of school climate (i.e., safe and supportive schools model) that includes engagement, safety, and the school environment. To examine the applicability of this school climate model in Mexico, the present study tested its measurement invariance across middle school students in the United States ( n = 15,099) and Mexico ( n = 2,211). Findings supported full invariance for engagement and modified-safety scales indicating that factor loadings and intercepts contributed almost equally to factor means, and scale scores were comparable across groups. Partial invariance was found for the environment scales. Results of a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) consisting of all 13 school climate scales indicated significantly positive associations among all scales in the U.S. sample and among most scales in the Mexico sample. Implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals School climate as the determinant of the relationship between the level of students’ resilience and school satisfaction

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viola Tamášová ◽  
Silvia Barnová
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
School Environment ◽  
School Satisfaction ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractResilience is an individual’s capacity to recover, adapt, and keep mental balance and normal functioning when exposed to significant adversity. This competence plays an important role in one’s life because it increases the probability of achieving success in various spheres of life. Schools can foster students’ resilience by providing a positive school environment and a sufficient number of protective factors, but it is the subjective interpretation of conditions and experiences rather than the exposure to them that is significant. The main objective of this research was to study to what extent school satisfaction, i.e. subjective interpretation of the school climate, influenced the level of students’ resilience. Not all our findings are compatible with the results of other studies. Despite the limits of our research, its results can serve as a basis for further work as not much has been done in the field of resilience research in Slovakia.

Making sense of continuous development of digital infrastructures

2021 ◽  
pp. 026839622110466
Author(s):  
Karen Osmundsen ◽  
Bendik Bygstad
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Definition Of

Continuous development extends the agile approach and focuses on bringing valuable services to users with the aim of achieving a continuous flow of learning and development in short cycles. The objective of this work is to theorize the idea of continuous development in the context of digital infrastructure evolution and explore the organizational interactions underlying continuous development. By drawing on literature on digital infrastructure theory and continuous development as it has emerged as an idea from the DevOps thinking expanded from agile, we outline main characteristics of continuous development and propose a theoretical definition of continuous development in organizational contexts. Then, in answering our research question “which patterns of interactions can be identified in the continuous development of digital infrastructures?”, we conducted a longitudinal case study at a Norwegian grid company and explored how a specific digital infrastructure evolved through continuous development. We identified generic interaction patterns with two cycles of sense-giving and sense-making between organizational actors, enabling the continuous development of the digital infrastructure. Our findings and model of interaction patterns offer a nuanced perspective on both digital infrastructure evolution and established views of sense-making and sense-giving mechanisms, as well as new ways to think about digitalization in incumbent firms.

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