School culture and climate, more than any other factors, determine school efficiency. Building a positive school climate means to create the conditions both for students and teachers to work and learn effectively – feeling supported, safe, motivated and satisfied with their outcomes, and ready to contribute to the school improvement. In the light of many research, schools with positive climate are those which pay attention not only to the high academic outcomes, often measured by the tests, but also (or mostly?) to the social and emotional well-being of every student and adult. The subject of the article concerns the perception of school climate and learning setting by teachers and students from two Warsaw high junior schools, which significantly differ from each other in the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. The text contains some conclusions from a multi-faceted exploration of school culture and climate at these schools. First, the author compares teacher – student perception of school climate within the school, and then compares two school workplaces focusing on human relationships as an important factor of school climate. In this text selected cathegories of school climate are analysed: (1) school satisfaction, (2) teacher – student and peer relationships, (3) teachers’ support for students, (4) motivating students to succeed, (5) obeying the students’ rights at school, (6) agressive behavior among students. Quantitative analysis are complemented with qualitative analysis.
Na podstawie przeglądu różnych opracowań teoretycznych i badawczych dotyczących kultury szkoły można stwierdzić, że naukowe podejścia do tego zagadnienia cechuje swego rodzaju heterogeniczność. Intencją autorek jest zwrócenie uwagi na trudności związane z badaniem kultury szkoły. Autorki zaprezentowały opracowaną przez siebie procedurę badawczą jako egzemplifikację sposobu poradzenia sobie z tymi trudnościami w kontekście całościowego badania kultury szkoły. Podstawą do opracowania procedury był model kultury szkoły La Tefy Schoen i Charlesa Teddliego, który zapewnił w miarę jednolite ujęcie tego, co w odniesieniu do kultury organizacji pojawia się w różnych tradycjach badawczych.
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Based on literature presenting the findings of the theoretical and research studies on the school culture, it can be concluded that the scientific approach to this issue bears a heterogenous character. The authors of the present paper analyze the difficulties associated with studying this phenomenon and then present an example of a research procedure enabling them to overcome those difficulties. This procedure was developed and later implemented by the authors on the basis of the cultural model of the school culture worked out by La Tefy Schoen and Charles Teddli. Thus, this model has provided grounds for integrating manifold theories regarding the school culture which have been rooted in various research traditions.
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