Managing Complex Educational Change
Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools
1st Edition
Published on 25. February 2014
264 pages
978-1-317-83524-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 management themes as realistic strategies for coping with complex educational change:
*orchestration
*flexible planning and coordination
*culture building and communication
*differentiated support
Managing Complex Educational Change is essential reading for all concerned with educational change - managers in schools and colleges, students on advanced courses, trainers, local and regional administrators, academics and policy makers. The research has general implications for the theory and practice of managing complex 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 management themes as realistic strategies for coping with complex educational change:
*orchestration
*flexible planning and coordination
*culture building and communication
*differentiated support
Managing Complex Educational Change is essential reading for all concerned with educational change - managers in schools and colleges, students on advanced courses, trainers, local and regional administrators, academics and policy makers. The research has general implications for the theory and practice of managing complex change.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
43 s/w Tabellen
43 Tables, black and white
File size
1,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-83524-0 (9781317835240)
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Additional editions
Keith Pocklington | Michael Wallace
Managing Complex Educational Change
Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools
Book
05/2002
1st Edition
Routledge
€93.80
Shipment within 15-20 days
Keith Pocklington | Michael Wallace
Managing Complex Educational Change
Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools
Book
05/2002
1st Edition
Routledge
€292.60
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Mike Wallace is Professor of Education at the University of Bath.,
Keith Pocklington is Co-Director of CREATE Consultants.
Keith Pocklington is Co-Director of CREATE Consultants.
Content
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
