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Effective change in schools / Chris James and Una Connolly.
Van Pelt Library LB2822.84.G7 J26 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Chris, 1949-
- Series:
- School leadership series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Improving Schools Project.
- School improvement programs--Wales, South--Management--Case studies.
- School improvement programs.
- Improving Schools Project--Case studies.
- School management and organization--Wales, South--Case studies.
- School management and organization.
- Management.
- South Wales.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 183 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge/Falmer, 2000.
- Summary:
- This book is about the management of change in schools. Focusing on research in schools, the book explores the process of successful and substantial educational change. The 32 schools which took part in the project all made significant changes in their practice in order to improve pupil achievement. This book describes and analyses the central features of that educational transformation process.
- Contents:
- 2 The Improving Schools Project 7
- 3 Educational change 16
- 4 The institutional transformation perspective 47
- 5 The challenge: the schools in the pre-acceleration stage 76
- 6 Initiating change: moving into the acceleration stage 89
- 7 Living with change: the acceleration stage 109
- 8 Going strategic: the post-acceleration stage 125
- 9 The leadership of educational transformation 140
- 10 Some final considerations 161
- Appendix The work undertaken by the project to enhance collaboration 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415221900
- 0415221919
- OCLC:
- 44573254
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