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Journal of Educational Change

, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp 203–232 | Cite as

Levers for sustainable improvement of Spanish schools in challenging contexts

  • Julián López-Yáñez
  • Marita Sánchez-Moreno
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Abstract

The need for innovation in the Spanish educational system has become more evident in the wake of the last PISA reports. To find our own way to achieve better schools we must take advantage of what schools that managed to sustain changes over time have learnt from such a process. This paper reports on findings from an inquiry that tried to shed light on the knowledge embedded in the practices of schools commended by external advisers as they had institutionalized a recognisable dynamic of changes. In order to meet this goal, five primary, four secondary and one special education school—most of them in challenging contexts—from two different regions in Spain were studied by means of ethnographic methodologies. The results described in this paper depict the main levers for improvement shared by these schools. Important support for change processes was found in the narratives deployed about the disadvantaged context surrounding the schools and the high value of teaching in these circumstances. On the other hand, the leadership that supported the change dynamics was clearly distributed and the leaders used diverse power sources in order to tackle changing contexts. Other key factors that apparently facilitated the sustainability of change were the priority given to supportive school climates; organizational cultures that encouraged teachers to take risks and essay new ways of teaching; and the practice of innovation by adopting an emergent, unplanned, free-flowing pattern. These findings are discussed in the light of common issues of the recent school improvement literature such as: sustainability, organizational knowledge and learning, communities of practice and building capacity to change.

Keywords

Building capacity Collaboration Communities of practice Educational innovation Organizational knowledge School improvement Spanish educational system Sustainability Trust 

Abbreviations

LODE

Ley Orgánica 8/1985 reguladora del Derecho a la Educación

LOGSE

Ley Orgánica 1/1990 de Ordenación General del Sistema Educativo

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Acknowledgments

The paper is based on the research project: López-Yáñez, J. (Head) “Liderazgo y desarrollo sostenibles en las organizaciones educativas”, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, National Plan of Research + Development + innovation (2005–2008 reference: SEJ2005-09056/EDUC). The authors also acknowledge the decisive contribution made to project by the rest of the research team: Altopiedi, M., Lavié, J. M., López-Jiménez, L. C., Murillo, P. (Universidad de Sevilla); Arencibia, J. S., Delgado-Betancor, U., Comini, F., Nogales, M. (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria).

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  • Julián López-Yáñez
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  • Marita Sánchez-Moreno
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  1. 1.Department of Teaching and School Organization, Faculty of EducationUniversidad de SevillaSevilleSpain

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