Managing complex educational change : large-scale reorganisation of schools / Mike Wallace and Keith Pocklington ; [foreword by Michael Fullan].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Mike, 1950- author.

Contributor:

Pocklington, Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational change--Great Britain.

Educational change.

School management and organization--Great Britain.

School management and organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 impacting and context dependent. These characteristics affected management tasks, generating ambiguity in the change process that limited managers' capacity to control it. The authors offer four manag

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Change gets complicated; 2 Unpacking complexity; 3 Complex change in perspective: a free for all (within limits); 4 Reorganisation 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; References; Index

Notes:

First published 2002 by RoutledgeFalmer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2014).

ISBN:

1-315-82456-6

1-317-83524-7

1-317-83525-5

9781315824567

OCLC:

878138556