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NIUSIpart of the Education Reform NetworksCreating schools as learning communities: Obstacles and processThis article is about the concept of learning organization/community and applies to all teachers and educational leaders. The authors attempted to clarify the concept of learning organization/community in order to identify the barriers that are perceived to obstruct the creation of learning communities out of traditional schools; to identify how principals go about the task of converting their schools; and the special characteristics of leadership required to transform schools successfully. The study that the authors reported was dependent on an extensive review of the literature and generated data from structured interviews of principals from the New South Wales (Australia) public education system. The authors found that respondents lacked a clear understanding of a learning organization despite their actions to implement the concept in their own schools; the concept may indeed be too abstract to enable a suitable workable definition; there is, nevertheless, a strong belief that the concept has much to offer; leadership is the key factor in transforming schools; and traditional school structures and cultures, lack of implementation time, and difficulty in obtaining the support of staff and parents are seen as the main barriers to implementation.
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