A case study on the organizational innovations and challenges of a comprehensive school providing extensive bilingual education

The goal of this case study was to document the challenges and innovative practices of a large Finnish comprehensive school organization providing an extensive bilingual education program. The study was conducted in 2018. This qualitative single-case study was conducted through a weeklong period of...

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Main Author: Pekkarinen, Erkka
Other Authors: Kasvatustieteiden ja psykologian tiedekunta, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Opettajankoulutuslaitos, Department of Teacher Education, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2019
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/65151
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description The goal of this case study was to document the challenges and innovative practices of a large Finnish comprehensive school organization providing an extensive bilingual education program. The study was conducted in 2018. This qualitative single-case study was conducted through a weeklong period of data collection. Data was collected through participant-observation, semi-structured thematic interviews and an ethnographic research diary. The participants of the study consisted of sixteen stakeholders acting in different positions within the same school organization, all of which were somehow involved in the implementation of the extensive bilingual education program. After analyzing the data through thematic analysis, four reciprocally interactive challenge-innovation pairs were found to shape the dynamics of the organization. These pairs were rigidness/flexibility, alienation/unity, indifference/investment and solitude/collaboration. In addition to the pairs being mutually reciprocal, the findings suggest that a causal relationship exists between each of the challenges and innovations, in which the innovations result from the challenges. Five key mechanisms (collaboration, self-efficacy, collective efficacy, collective investment and time) were identified as parts of this causal process. The findings were further supported by commonalities found in existing research on the fields of educational leadership and bilingual education. The process of transformation from challenges to innovations documented in this study has implications for developing effective organizational practices for implementing bilingual education programs in schools across different contexts. Tämän tapaustutkimuksen tavoitteena on dokumentoida haasteita ja innovatiivisia käytänteitä osana suomalaisen laajamittaista kaksikielistä opetusta tarjoavan yhtenäiskoulun arkea. Tutkimus toteutettiin vuonna 2018. Aineisto tätä tutkimusta varten kerättiin viikon aikana osallistuvan havainnoinnin, puolistrukturoitujen teemahaastattelujen sekä etnografisen tutkimuspäiväkirjan avulla. Tutkimukseen osallistui kuusitoista erilaisissa tehtävissä toimivaa henkilöä kouluorganisaation sisältä. Kaikki osallistujat olivat jossakin määrin mukana laajamittaisen kaksikielisen opetuksen toteuttamisessa. Aineisto analysoitiin teemoitellen. Analyysin seurauksena löydettiin neljä keskinäisessä vuorovaikutuksessa olevaa haaste-innovaatio -paria, joiden kautta organisaation toimintaa ja sen sisäistä dynamiikkaa oli mahdollista hahmottaa. Nämä parit olivat jäykkyys/joustavuus, vieraantuminen/yhtenäisyys, välinpitämättömyys/kiinnostus ja yksinäisyys/yhteistyö. Sen lisäksi, että parit olivat keskenään vuorovaikutteisia, viittasivat tulokset siihen, että löydetyt haasteet ja innovaatiot olivat kausaalisessa suhteessa keskenään, eli innovaatioiden voitiin havaita olevan seurausta haasteista. Aineiston perusteella oli mahdollista eritellä viisi päätekijää (yhteistyö, minäpystyvyys, kollektiivinen pystyvyys, kiinnostus ja aika) jotka olivat osana tätä kausaalista prosessia. Löydöksiä tukivat yhteneväisyydet aiemmin koulutusjohtamisen ja kaksikielisen opetuksen kentillä tehtyyn tutkimukseen. Tämä myös vähentää tulosten kontekstisidonnaisuutta, minkä vuoksi tässä tutkimuksessa dokumentoidulla muutosprosessilla haasteista innovaatioihin onkin mahdollisia käytännön implikaatioita toimivien organisaatiokäytänteiden kehittämiseen kouluissa, jotka tarjoavat kaksikielistä opetusta.
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title A case study on the organizational innovations and challenges of a comprehensive school providing extensive bilingual education
title_full A case study on the organizational innovations and challenges of a comprehensive school providing extensive bilingual education
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topic_facet 103 Finnish education Luokanopettajakoulutus Suomi Teacher Education becoming organised bilingual education bilingual schools case study challenges comprehensive school content and language integrated learning educational systems haasteet (ongelmat) innovaatiot innovations integrated teaching integroitu opetus kaksikieliset koulut kieli ja kielet koulut koulutusjärjestelmät languages organisoituminen peruskoulu school organization schools (educational institutions)
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