This paper addresses the need to find new ways of examining workplace cultures
quickly and effectively, in order to facilitate school improvement. Emphasising the
importance of school culture, it illustrates how critical incidents can be analysed so
as to help teachers to understand the factors which shape their practice. It is argued
that the proposed method has the potential to go beyond systems of external
monitoring, in such a way as to enable schools to develop procedures for self-review
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