Images of Schools
Structures and Roles in Organizational Behavior
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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.
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
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.
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
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Images of Schools
Structures and Roles in Organizational Behavior
March 1995 | 424 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9780803962514 | $44.95 |
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.
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
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While old, the topics were still in line with the issues raised in the course I offered.
Jeffrey Lewis, Organizational Studies, Pitzer College