This study examines teacher collaboration in nine German schools to identify factors that explain the structure of teacher networks in relation to specific types of collaboration and schools' structural environment. Using inferential network analysis, we find that teachers’ individual attributes are important for collaboration in schools with basic collaborative environments, and for the exchange of material. By contrast, in schools with well-established collaborative structures, ties are formed predominantly based on prior relations. Our findings emphasize the importance of collaborative structures to lower the barrier for individual teachers to engage in collaboration and to bring together colleagues from different backgrounds.

这项研究检查了9所德国学校中的教师合作，以找出可以解释与特定类型的合作和学校的结构环境相关的教师网络结构的因素。使用推理网络分析，我们发现教师的个人属性对于在具有基本协作环境的学校中进行协作以及交换材料非常重要。相比之下，在具有良好协作结构的学校中，联系主要建立在先验关系的基础上。我们的研究结果强调了协作结构的重要性，这对于降低单个教师参与协作以及将来自不同背景的同事聚集在一起的障碍非常重要。