%0 Journal Article
%T Conflicting Views of School Community: The Dichotomy Between Administrators and Teachers
%A John Barnett
%A Gerald Fallon
%J International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership
%D 2007
%I Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Simon Fraser University, George Mason University
%X This project was the second phase of a two-phase study of teachersĄ¯ knowledge of community in an urban, private boysĄ¯ day school in Canada. The first phase examined a teacherĄ¯s perception of her classroom community, and this phase asked teachers and administrators in the same school about their perceptions of school community. We found that the school created and implemented an organizational structure designed to foster and sustain a professional community. However, administrators and teachers conceptualized, understood, and experienced community in different ways. Administrators saw community as a management tool to generate support for the schoolĄ¯s objectives. Teachers experienced community as social support that served as a remedy for professional isolation. Neither group based its view on community as a capacity-building, reflective process leading to a generative professional community.
%K community
%K learning community
%U http://journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index.php/ijepl/article/download/28/14