Working collaboratively?

A paper from the Partnership for Professional Enquiry Seminar: 'Constructing Collegiality: Changing the Nature of Leadership in Schools?' Jun 2006.

The complexity of collegiality and collaboration in schools

• What are the contextual factors in school which might contribute to the fundamental tensions outlined in this paper?
• What can be done to reduce these tensions or are they inevitable?
• Is it possible for staff in schools to work collaboratively as envisaged in current policy documents and as described in the Standards?