School Culture as an Object of Research.

Abstract

Though the exploration of school culture is laborious, researchers have been endeavouring to empirically apprehend it since the 1960s. Various research jobs have been carried out, of diverse starting points, ways of materialization, and conclusions. The presented text indicates a way of classifying these studies according to the purposes they had been performed for. Though the list of examples is not entirely complete nor is the classification definite, a conclusion seem to be clear and evident: in most cases, school culture is not explored in order to grasp such culture itself. Much more often, school culture is examined as a starting point, a pre-condition, or a tool to explore another object of the researchers interest outside the culture itself, such as the quality and judgement of the schools performance, the quality of the learning process, or the schools development potential.