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Images of Schools - Book Cover

Images of Schools

Structures and Roles in Organizational Behavior
The current debate in the United States over education reform, particularly school restructuring, is essentially over which strategy of organization will achieve the best result: Accountability versus autonomy; empowerment versus centralization; or standardization versus flexibility? This innovative book applies analytical perspectives from organizational theory to education. The results will help school administrators develop more effective strategies and tactics.

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Images of Schools - Book Cover
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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9780803962514
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 1995
  • Page Count: 424
  • Publication date: March 21, 1995
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Description

The current debate in the United States over education reform, particularly school restructuring, is essentially over which strategy of organization will achieve the best result: Accountability versus autonomy; empowerment versus centralization; or standardization versus flexibility? This innovative book applies analytical perspectives from organizational theory to education. The results will help school administrators develop more effective strategies and tactics.
Author(s)

Author(s)

Samuel B. Bacharach photo

Samuel B. Bacharach
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Bryan Mundell
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

PART ONE: IMAGES OF STRUCTURE

School Organizations by Design

The Organizational Design of Schools

Schools as Decision-Making Arenas

Institutionalism and Strategic Decisions in Education

Schools as Learning Organizations

Against the Current: Organizational Learning in Schools

Schools as Cultural Arenas

Symbols and Symbolic Activity

PART TWO: IMAGES OF ROLES

Redesigning the Role of the Teacher

The Impacts of Mathematics and Computer Technology on the Core Assumptions and Practices of Teaching

Enabling Good Teaching Performance

Performance Management in Education

Assessing Teaching Performance

The Assessment of Teaching Based on Evidence of Student Learning

School Administrators as Boundary Spanners

Striking a Balance: Boundary Spanning and Environmental Manangement in Schools

School Administrators as Leaders

Research on School Leadership: The State of the Art

Fitting Leaders to School Organizations

Administrator Succession in School Organizations

PART THREE: CONCLUDING ESSAY

The Implicit Action beneath Explicit Organizing Models


Other Titles in: School Change, Reform, & Restructuring

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