School Turnaround in Germany: Identifying Change and Development Models in Schools in Challenging Circumstances

• In Event: 21.062 - MTCC Roundtable Session Six
  In Roundtable Session: 21.062-8 - School Turnaround, School Transformation, and Models in School Reform: The Overload

Abstract

This paper explores school development processes in ten schools in challenging circumstances in a large city in Germany. All the schools took part in a school turnaround project initiated as a public-private partnership between the school authority of this city and the Foundation. The paper focuses on identifying positive organisational changes in the participating schools over a five-year period which is the lifetime of the project. Based on an analysis of change and development models, the paper discusses interventions and conditions for school improvement and challenges with respect to applying the intended impact logic underlying prevailing school turnaround approaches in the German context.

Authors

• Stephan Gerhard Huber, University of Teacher Education Zug

• Guri Skedsmo, University of Oslo

• Giang Hong Pham, University of Teacher Education Zug

• Katja Karwat, University of Teacher Education Zug