Research Catalog

Title

Organizational effectiveness and improvement in education / edited by Alma Harris, Nigel Bennett, and Margaret Preedy.

Publication

Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harris, Alma, 1958-
• Bennett, Nigel, 1949 June 20-
• Preedy, Margaret.

Description

viii, 288 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

The main theories on effectiveness and improvement in education are brought together in this book that examines the ways in which these qualities can be monitored and measured.

Series Statement

Leadership and management in education

Uniform Title

Leadership and management in education

Subject

• School management and organization > Great Britain
• School improvement programs > Great Britain
• Educational evaluation > Great Britain
• Educational change > Great Britain
• 81.40 educational organization on meso-level: general
• Educational change
• Educational evaluation
• School improvement programs
• School management and organization
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Qualitätssteigerung
• Schulverwaltung
• Schule
• Organisatieontwikkeling
• Onderwijsinstellingen
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: organizational effectiveness and improvement in education -- 2. The organization as an open system -- 3. Power, authority and influence -- 4. Cultural change: an integration of three different views -- 5. Ideas, action and cultures of schooling -- 6. Organizational structure and organizational effectiveness -- 7. Collegial models -- 8. Models of co-ordination in educational organizations -- 9. Towards a cultural and political perspective -- 10. Organizational effectiveness -- 11. Towards a theory of educational effectiveness -- 12. School effectiveness and school improvement in the United Kingdom -- 13. School effectiveness research: the policy makers' tool for school improvement? -- 14. A study of 'effective' departments in secondary schools -- 15. Quality management in education -- 16. Current developments in value added -- 17. Measuring added value in schools -- 18. Value-added principles, practice and ethical considerations -- 19. Planning, doing and coping with change -- 20. Perspectives on educational change -- 21. Organizations or communities? Changing the metaphor changes the theory -- 22. School culture, school effectiveness and school improvement -- 23. Linking school effectiveness knowledge and school improvement practice -- 24. School improvements -- propositions for action -- 25. Fair Furlong Primary School -- Index.

ISBN

• 0335198430
• 9780335198436
• 0335198449
• 9780335198443

LCCN

96042219

OCLC

• ocm35292989
• 35292989
• SCSB-2121146

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library