The knowledge-creating school

Moving into the knowledge society at a time when expectations of schools and teachers continue to rise creates an urgent need for better professional knowledge about the management of schools and effective teaching and learning. This demand arises in part because university-based researchers have no...

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Published inBritish journal of educational studies Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 122 - 144
Main Author Hargreaves, David H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK and Boston, USA Taylor & Francis Group 01.06.1999
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Blackwell Publishers Ltd
Basil Blackwell Ltd., etc
Subjects
dissemination
Educational administration
Educational innovation
Educational research
Effizienz
Fachkompetenz
knowledge
Knowledge management
Lehrer
Lehrerfortbildung
Praxisbezug
profession
Professional schools
Professionalität
Publishing industry
Pädagogische Forschung
Research universities
Schule
Teachers
Technological innovation
Universities
Wissen
Wissensgesellschaft
Wissenstransfer
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Summary:Moving into the knowledge society at a time when expectations of schools and teachers continue to rise creates an urgent need for better professional knowledge about the management of schools and effective teaching and learning. This demand arises in part because university-based researchers have not hitherto been very successful in either the creation or dissemination of such knowledge. It is argued that success in meeting this demand will continue to elude us as long as the conventional approaches to educational R&D persist. Patterns of knowledge creation and dissemination in high technology firms are suggestive of the conditions under which the creation of professional knowledge in education and its more rapid dissemination throughout the whole education service might flourish. The implications of this radical reconceptualization of knowledge creation and its dissemination in education are explored.
ISSN:0007-1005
1467-8527
DOI:10.1111/1467-8527.00107