Title: Interaction between institutional and professional dimensions of schools experiencing an administrative reform process

Authors: Kamil Yıldırım

Addresses: Department of Educational Sciences, Education Faculty, Aksaray University, 68100 Aksaray, Turkey

Abstract: This study investigated the interaction between institutional and personal professional dimensions in schools in a centralised education system that experienced a major reform initiative. Assuming the influence of both dimensions on teachers' behaviours, we tested an integrated causal model. By conducting a predictive-correlational-survey design, the study collected and analysed the data belonged to 346 teachers from primary, lower secondary and upper-secondary schools. The model confirmed the significant prediction of personal professional dimension. The key variable was being cooperative-orientation. The study concluded that succeeding any reform initiative on schools depends on improving teachers' personal professional characteristics.

Keywords: interaction; institution; individual; professional; school; reform.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2021.113522

International Journal of Management in Education, 2021 Vol.15 No.2, pp.101 - 115

Received: 23 Dec 2019
Accepted: 18 Feb 2020

Published online: 10 Mar 2021 *

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