Improving teaching, teamwork, and school organization: collaboration networks in school teams

Andrea Wullschleger; András Vörös; Beat Rechsteiner; Ariane Rickenbacher; Katharina Maag Merki

doi:10.1016/j.tate.2022.103909

Improving teaching, teamwork, and school organization: collaboration networks in school teams

Andrea Wullschleger^*, András Vörös, Beat Rechsteiner, Ariane Rickenbacher, Katharina Maag Merki

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Whereas previous studies on teacher collaboration have focused almost exclusively on improving teaching, this paper investigates collaboration in three highly important school improvement areas. Data for three collaboration networks were collected in four secondary schools in Switzerland in 2018 on teachers exploring new ideas on teaching (teaching improvement), teamwork (team improvement), and school organization (organizational improvement). Using social network analysis, we examined to what extent the collaboration networks overlap, how network structures differ, and what factors explain these differences. The results revealed substantial differences between collaboration in the three areas. This suggests that future research should examine collaboration from a multidimensional network perspective.

Original language	English
Article number	103909
Number of pages	17
Journal	Teaching and Teacher Education
Volume	121
Early online date	19 Oct 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103909
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

Keywords

Teacher collaboration
School improvement
Social network analysis
Exponential random graph model (ERGM)

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