How shall we study religious school culture?

In this article the author suggests that a vision of the "ideal" underpins
all educational work. The complex web of interactions and activities
that make up school culture must be studied in order to find "ways
in" to effecting change and approaching the ideal. Religious school
culture may be especially complex, built as it is on both religious
and academic ideals and often operating within a secular common
culture. The author proposes a model for studying religious school
culture, based on a vision of what the "idea" school culture might
look like.