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Solvason, Carla 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3072-0079
(2005)
Investigating Specialist School Ethos…Or Do You Mean Culture?
Educational Studies, 31 (1).
pp. 85-95.
ISSN Print: 0305-5698 Online: 1465-8400
Abstract
This paper explores the concept of ethos as a facet of the government’s rapidly growing initiative of the ‘specialist school’. Schools accepted on to the scheme are expected to create a new identity, or ethos: but what exactly is meant by that rather nebulous term? And, in reality, is something as all‐consuming as a school ethos, or culture, something that a school can readily conjure up? This discussion, one facet of the author’s case study of a Specialist Sports College, explores the concept of school cultures, but also gives consideration to areas such as conflicting and ‘toxic’ cultures, and to the possibility that changing a school’s culture can have negative as well as positive effects.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text of this article via the Official URL. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service. |
| Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | collaboration, culture, ethos, specialist schools |
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | College of Arts, Humanities and Education > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | Carla Solvason |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2012 09:50 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2020 16:58 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/2029 |
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