| Abstract [eng] |
Nowadays organisation rallying the professionals for common activities should pay great attention to social aspects of its activity, among which organisational culture takes an important place. Currently, a lot of attention is paid to the idea of educational organisation culture as well as problematic of introduction of related methods, culture of university, gymnasium is analysed and surveyed by scientists of diverse fields, however it was impossible to find any survey data related to organisational culture of general education school and systematic substantiation of singularities of the latter. Referring to the experience by many authors, systematic survey of school culture is relevant as it may help schools in establishing the development reserve, and even more the process of survey of school culture could become the measure for improvement of school activity. The object of the survey: The culture of school as organisation. The aim of the survey: To analyse the concept of school culture, to reveal singularities of culture of the school as organisation. The methods of the survey. The survey was conducted referring to the analysis of scientific information sources, descriptive statistics, interview of teachers and pupils with the help of questionnaires formed according to the questionnaire for survey of culture of university organisation by P. Jucevičienė, A. Poškienė, L. Kudirkaitė, N. Damanskas (2000). The survey data was processed with Microsoft Excel computer programme. The content of the survey. The survey was conducted in March of 2008. Two groups of respondents participated in the survey: 166 – pupils from 7 up to 10 grades (including 85 pupils from the city and 81 from the district); 56 teachers (including 35 working in the city schools and 21 in the district). The results of the survey. In the course of the survey it was established that principal schools of the city and district have insufficient number of general academic symbols, however attitude by many school members, pupils and teachers, towards availability of school symbols is rather favourable, nurturance of traditions in the schools which participated in the survey along with the continuance of organisational culture are partly maintained. It was ascertained that parity relations between pupils and teachers in the city and district schools are realised partly. General basis of school values comprises the values recognised by the majority number of the school members: general human values – justice, respect for person, kindness, dutifulness and diligence; public values – equality, independence, tolerance, responsibility and school and organisational values – studying and continuous improvement, preservation of culture and information accumulated by mankind. |
