The Human Side of School Change

Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-7879-5611-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation between leaders of change and the people they depend upon to implement it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction xi

The Author xvii

Part One: The Nature of Change

1 Changing Paradigms 3

2 The Meanings of Change 21

3 The Culture of Resistance 40

Part Two: Dimensions of Change

4 Implementation: Tasks of Transition 55

5 Substance: New Agendas, Old Problems 74

6 Staff: Understanding Reluctant Faculty 91

7 Setting: Assessing Organizational Capacity 119

8 Leadership: Old Paradoxes, New Promise 145

Part Three: Leading Innovation

9 The Authentic Leader 183

10 Clarity and Focus: The Power of Concentration 206

11 Participation — Without Paralysis 229

12 Recognition: Reversing the Golden Rule 254

13 Confrontation: Avoiding Avoidance 272

14 Reach and Realism, Experience and Hope 289

References 301

Index 311

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Evans is a clinical and organizational psychologist and director of the Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Massachusetts. A former high school and preschool teacher, he has consulted with hundreds of schools and districts throughout America and around the world and has worked extensively with teachers, administrators, school boards, and state education officials
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