Reporting SCHOOL-AS-SOCIAL-SYSTEM-REPORT-3.pdf

Reporting

1. School as a
Social System
Key Elements of School as a Social System

2. What is a
Social System?01

3. Social System
A social organization
A set of interrelated elements
functioning as a unit to achieve a
specific purpose. Hanson (1996)

4. Social System
A model or organization that
possess creativity beyond its
components parts; distinguished
from its environment by a clearly
defined boundary; it is composed
of subunits, elements and
subsystems that interrelated
within relatively stable patterns
of social order (Olsen, 1970)

5. What is a
School?02

6. School
A school is an institution
designed for the teaching of
students (or "pupils") under the
direction of teachers.

7. Social Systems
Model: Key
Assumptions

8. Social Systems Model: Key
Assumptions
Social systems are open system.
Social systems consists of interdependent
parts, which interact with each other and
the environment.
Social systems are goal oriented.

9. Social Systems Model: Key
Assumptions
Social systems are peopled.
Social systems have structure.
Social systems are political.
Social systems have cultures.
Social systems have norms.

10. The Basic Social System model for Schools
INPUTS
TEACHING &
LEARNING
PROCESS
FEEDBACK
ENVIRONMENTS
OUTPUTS

11. INPUTS
The human, material, financial,
or information resources used
in the teaching and learning
process.

12. TEACHING &
LEARNING
PROCESS
The interaction between
and among the parts.

13. OUTPUTS
The graduates and/or
services produced.

14. Information concerning the outta or the teaching and
learning process that influences decision making and the
selection of inputs during the next academic year.
FEEDBACK

15. ENVIRONMENT
The external environment of the school including the
social, political, and economic forces that impinge on the
school’s operation.

16. Internal Elements of the System

17. Key Elements of the
School as a Social
System

18. Structure: roles are expectations of positions that are
arranged in a hierarchy.
Key Elements of the School as a Social System
Individual: the individual is a key unit in any
social system; regardless of position, people
bring with them individual needs, beliefs, and a
cognitive understandings of the job..
Culture: represents the unwritten feeling part of
the organizations: its shared values.

19. Politics: informal power relations that develop
spontaneously.
Key Elements of the School as a Social System
Environment: everything outside the
organization; source of inputs.
Feedback: communication that monitors behavior.
Outputs: the products of organizations, e. g.
Educated students.
Effectiveness: the congruence between expected and
actual outcomes.

20. References
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