Managing Change in Education: Individual and Organizational Perspectives

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Since the early 1980s, school and college managements worldwide have had to cope with a set of rapidly-changing responsibilities and expectations. The direction of government policy in many parts of the world has been towards greater decentralization and increased institutional autonomy. The contributions to Managing Change in Education explore some of the main theories and processes of educational management, drawing on the theme of institutional, group and personal change and development. A key theme of the book is that change is not just about the creation of new policies and procedures to implement external mandates. It is also about the strategies by which individuals respond to the impact of structural and cultural change; about personal change as much as organizational change; about the place of values in framing organizational form and culture, as well as those which look at individual and group responses to the pressures which they feel.This is a companion volume to Managing the Effective School edited by Margaret Preedy. It is the set book for the Open University course E326 Managing Schools: Challenge and Response.


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This is a companion volume to Managing the Effective School edited by Margaret Preedy. It is the set book for the Open University course E326 Managing Schools: Challenge and Response.


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