Managing Complex Educational Change: Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools

by Michael Wallace, Mike Wallace, Keith Pocklington

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415200962
• ISBN13: 9780415200967
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.8"