1st Edition
Managing Complex Educational Change Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools
260 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change? This book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially... Read more
1. Change gets Complicated 2. Unpacking Complexity 3. Complex Change in Perspective: A Free for All (within Limits) 4. Reoganisation Initiatives: Origins and Outline 5. Everything to Play For: Managing Initiation 6. Working to a Deadline: Managing Implementation 7. Establishing the New Order: Managing Institutionalisation 8. Get Real! Coping with Complex Educational Change
Biography
Mike Wallace is Professor of Education at the University of Bath., Keith Pocklington is Co-Director of CREATE Consultants.
