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This chapter examines the role of culture in promoting knowledge sharing and the cultural change processes involved in implementation of knowledge management in school organisation. Strategies based on Senge’s (The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization. Doubleday, New York, 1990) empirical study outline five disciplines for developing a culture of organisational learning. A case study on fostering a knowledge-sharing culture in a school is illustrated by using Kotter’s (Leading change. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1996) model. Management strategies on policy, cultural and leadership domains for developing organisational culture are presented.
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Section 3.5 is reproduced with permission from the author’s paper entitled “Cultivating communities of practice via Learning Study for enhancing teacher learning” in KEDI Journal of Educational Policy, 6(1), 81–104.
Section 3.6 is reproduced with permission from the author’s paper entitled “Management strategies for promoting teacher collective learning” in Journal of US–China Education Review, 8(1), 33–45.
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Cheng, E.C.K. (2015). Managing Culture for Knowledge Management Implementation. In: Knowledge Management for School Education. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-233-3_3
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