Passion, Engagement and Spirit of the Community: Surveying Social Climate of Czech LIS Schools

LORENZ, Michal and Tatiana KADLECOVÁ. Passion, Engagement and Spirit of the Community: Surveying Social Climate of Czech LIS Schools. In The Fourth European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), Prague, Czech Republic, 10-13 October 2016. 2016. ISBN 978-80-270-0530-7.

Basic information

• Original name: Passion, Engagement and Spirit of the Community: Surveying Social Climate of Czech LIS Schools
• Name in Czech: Vášeň, zapojení a duch komunity: průzkum sociálního klimatu na českých knihovnických a informačních univerzitách
• Authors: LORENZ, Michal and Tatiana KADLECOVÁ.
• Edition: The Fourth European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), Prague, Czech Republic, 10-13 October 2016, 2016.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Conference abstract
• Field of Study: 50804 Library science
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-80-270-0530-7
• Keywords in English: school social climate; school sense of community; participatory curriculum; engagement of students
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Introduction School social climate is the sum of perceived expectations, interactions and evaluations of a school’s social actors reflecting on the atmosphere of the school. The positive setting of school social climate shapes the form and the spirit of the local learning community. It manifests itself in the community members experiencing a phenomenon termed Sense of community (McMillan; Chavis, 1986). School sense of community serves as a model for school social climate description and comparison. The aim of this research is to compare the perceived strength of community with diversity of extracurricular activities. We supposed more extracurricular activities cultivate a learning community with higher completion rates and with consequences for courses design. Sense of community was used as well for study of religious pluralism and perceptions of inclusion among students (Bottom et al., 2013), perception of justice (Petrillo et al., 2013), and social justice attitudes and student activism (Torres - Harding et al., 2015).

Links

• MUNI/A/1121/2015, interní kód MU: Name: Design Thinking Action Lab 2016: otevřenost, zodpovědnost, iniciativa (Acronym: DALAB 2016)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A