Collective teacher culture: exploring an elusive construct and its relations with teacher autonomy, belonging, and job satisfaction

Abstract One purpose of this study was to analyze relations between four possible indicators a collective teacher culture by means confirmatory factor analyses. The were termed “shared goals values”, “value consonance”, “collective efficacy”, and “supportive colleagues”. A second explore teachers’ experiences autonomy, belonging, job satisfaction. Participants 760 Norwegian teachers in elementary school middle school. data analyzed analyses SEM correlations the ranged from .44 .63 both model with first order factors variable had good fit data. analysis showed that strongly positively associated