Mine or Yours? Social Networks, Engagement, Resistance, and the Mediating Role of Ownership

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Teachers as Policy Implementers (Table 35)

Abstract

We examined the relationship between social network centrality in instrumental and expressive networks versus teachers’ reform engagement and resistance as well as the mediating and moderating role of teacher ownership and territoriality in explaining these associations. The study focused on an ICT reform that was scaled up in Israel’s elementary schools. Social network surveys were administered to 226 teachers across 11 schools to assess teachers’ social network positions. Moderated-mediation analyses along with exponential random graph modeling (ERGM) revealed that territoriality moderated the full mediation effect of ownership in the relationship between indegree in reform networks and reform engagement. Ownership partially mediated the relationship between outdegree in expressive networks and reform resistance. Findings have implications for promotion- and prevention-focused processes associated with social network centrality and the importance of formal hierarchies in reform.

Author

• Noa Rom, Keystone Research Center