The role of culture in program improvement |
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| Authors: | Sally Lubeck Patricia Jessup Mary deVries Jackie Post |
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| Institution: | a The University of Michigan, School of Education, 601 East University, 4218, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this article, we draw on work in three Head Start programs over three years to consider how “culture” plays a role in program improvement. Through close attention to discourse we attempt to show how culture takes shape through dynamic interactions in particular contexts, constituting identities, structuring social relations, and privileging particular forms of knowledge. We argue for the importance of illuminating the forces that shape our lives and bringing our own ideologies to conscious awareness, in order to become actors in our social milieus. Articulation between general mandates and local needs and goals would then entail ongoing dialogue in a “culturally situated model of school/program effectiveness” (Fuller & Clarke, 1994, p. 121). |
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