{"title":"\"It's like a beneficial bacterium\": A positive spin on an educational vision for institutionalizing a culture of caring","authors":"Limor Golan , Yifat Levi , Yitzhak Ben-Yair","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.104954","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how perceptual and organizational processes within an elementary school shaped a nurturing, resilient culture. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 15 staff members, 10 parents, and 10 students, alongside observations and document analysis. A qualitative-phenomenological case study revealed two key themes: leadership prioritizing staff wellbeing, and the impact of caring behavior within the organization. , . This transformation was driven by a “positive spin” – an emotional consciousness process – embraced by organization's members and community, creating a unified, lasting positive culture. The study offers theoretical insights and strategies for cultivating caring organizational cultures in educational settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"158 ","pages":"Article 104954"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Teaching and Teacher Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X25000307","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study investigates how perceptual and organizational processes within an elementary school shaped a nurturing, resilient culture. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 15 staff members, 10 parents, and 10 students, alongside observations and document analysis. A qualitative-phenomenological case study revealed two key themes: leadership prioritizing staff wellbeing, and the impact of caring behavior within the organization. , . This transformation was driven by a “positive spin” – an emotional consciousness process – embraced by organization's members and community, creating a unified, lasting positive culture. The study offers theoretical insights and strategies for cultivating caring organizational cultures in educational settings.
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Teaching and Teacher Education is an international journal concerned primarily with teachers, teaching, and/or teacher education situated in an international perspective and context. The journal focuses on early childhood through high school (secondary education), teacher preparation, along with higher education concerning teacher professional development and/or teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education is a multidisciplinary journal committed to no single approach, discipline, methodology, or paradigm. The journal welcomes varied approaches (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods) to empirical research; also publishing high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Manuscripts should enhance, build upon, and/or extend the boundaries of theory, research, and/or practice in teaching and teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education does not publish unsolicited Book Reviews.
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