Trust: an emergent pattern of school development and improvement

Authors

  • Julián López Yáñez Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Sevilla, España.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35362/rie540543

Keywords:

trust; school improvement; communities of practice; sustainability

Abstract

This article points out that a fundamental trait of the schools that develop innovation processes, specifically those that achieve coordination between development and long term institutional improvement, is that they seem to be based on what we will hereon call «logics of trust». Our goal is to unveil different roads that lead to these logics. With this purpose, we will resort to a multiple case study in which participated ten schools acknowleged for being innovative among their communities. In this paper we will describe some of the most relevant results produced by the above mentioned research along with the methodology used. We will also discuss them considering the literature about the following items: trust in organizations; learning processes and institutional knowledge produced by communities of practices; and innovation in educative organizations. We will try to prove that trust is an appropriate construct to understand the scope and the limitations of the innovation processes found in the schools of our research.

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Author Biography

Julián López Yáñez, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Sevilla, España.

Profesor titular en el Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Educativa, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Sevilla, España.

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How to Cite

López Yáñez, J. (2010). Trust: an emergent pattern of school development and improvement. Iberoamerican Journal of Education, 54, 85–106. https://doi.org/10.35362/rie540543

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2010-09-01

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