Tillit, misstro och motstånd : En studie av skolutvecklingsaktörers konstruktioner av skolutvecklingens villkor

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to uncover and problematize how school management and senior teachers perceive governing and management of school development processes from a perspective of trust. The research questions are the following: “Which constructs of trust emerge among school management and senior teachers in governing and management of school development processes?” and “Which constructs of possibilities and challenges emerge among school management and senior teachers in governing and management of school development processes from a perspective of trust?” The study has a social constructivist design where a framework for evaluation of trust versus mistrust (the Trust/Mistrust matrix: TDM) was used in the analysis. Three themes for school development processes with constructs of trust emerged: (1) culture for school development, (2) the need for school development measures and (3) a learning organization. The empirical materials of the study consist of interviews with school management and senior teachers. The result indicates two ideas of what school development is; individual, subject-driven perspective and collective education-driven perspective are two parallel systems with different roles that arose without the organization realizing it. One implication for the future is to structure the organization for participation in school development processes for school management and teachers on all levels for access to the capacity of the collective. Teachers’ and managers’ autonomy is an aspect that is beyond the limitations of this study but may merit further investigation.