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Les Cahiers de recherche en éducation et formation
Référence : N°54, février 2007
Thème : Exploring the interplay between organizational and professional identity
Communication faite (en anglais) par Branka Cattonar, Hugues Draelants, Xavier Dumay à la "7th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Identity, Ideology and Idiosyncrasy" "This communication investigates those links in the particular case of teachers and educational organizations and is thus centered on the relations between teachers’ professional identities and schools’ organizational identities. First, we will consider from a theoretical point of view the notions of professional identity and organizational identity. Before discussing how the teacher’s professional identities are contextualised by the fact of working in one school rather than another school, we will consider the theoretical implications of applying the notion of organizational identity to the schools, usually depicted as loosely coupled organizations (Weick, 1976). In order to study the way schools’ organizational context influences the construction of the teachers’ professional identities, we will then present the results of a qualitative analysis (24 interviews with teachers working in three secondary schools of Brussels, strongly contrasted concerning the school public). Next, using a quantitative data base (including the answers of 3621 teachers working in 137 secondary schools of the French-speaking Belgium), we will analyse how schools differentiate on some key dimensions of the teachers’ professional identity and how cohesion in schools on the same dimensions can occur. This empirical investigation show that the presence and the relative intensity of the schools’ culture and identity actually depend on a series of organizational conditions. Finally, we conclude on the relevance of bringing together and making dialogue the concepts of professional identity and organisational identity in the field of education research in a momentum of accountability policies. "
Informations complémentaires :
http://www.uclouvain.be/.../cahier_54_dumay_OK.pdf
