Influence of School Culture on Pedagogical Practices in Private Schools of Lahore, Punjab

Abstract

The concept of school culture incorporates leadership practices, shared values, and staff development systems, has emerged as key factor of pedagogical effectiveness and innovative teaching approaches in current academic landscape. Regardless of emerging prominence of this association, still the interconnection between school culture and instructional modernization and   the process through which school culture effects the pedagogical practices of teachers are under researched. This paper was designed to examine the relationship between school culture and pedagogical practices of teachers. 100 school teachers were selected through convenient sampling technique from public and private schools of district Lahore. In data analysis, the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation was applied to identify the statistical significance of relationship between school culture and pedagogical practices of teachers. Regression analysis was run to investigate that to what extent does the school culture predicts the pedagogical practices of teachers. The results showed that study indicated that there is a moderate positive correlation between school culture and pedagogical practices of teachers. The findings of the study revealed that improvements in school culture are directly associated with the effectiveness of pedagogical practices of teachers.