Images of Schools
Structures and Roles in Organizational Behavior

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Organizational Behavior in Education

March 1995 | 424 pages | Corwin

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.

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PART ONE: IMAGES OF STRUCTURE

Brian Rowan

School Organizations by Design

The Organizational Design of Schools

Charles Taylor Kerchner and Krista D Caufman

Schools as Decision-Making Arenas

Institutionalism and Strategic Decisions in Education

Eric Rait

Schools as Learning Organizations

Against the Current: Organizational Learning in Schools

Terrence E Deal

Schools as Cultural Arenas

Symbols and Symbolic Activity

PART TWO: IMAGES OF ROLES

Ann Weaver Hart

Redesigning the Role of the Teacher

The Impacts of Mathematics and Computer Technology on the Core Assumptions and Practices of Teaching

Stephen M Mitchell

Enabling Good Teaching Performance

Performance Management in Education

Gary Sykes and Jason Millman

Assessing Teaching Performance

The Assessment of Teaching Based on Evidence of Student Learning

Ellen B Goldring

School Administrators as Boundary Spanners

Striking a Balance: Boundary Spanning and Environmental Manangement in Schools

Lee G Bolman and Rafael Heller

School Administrators as Leaders

Research on School Leadership: The State of the Art

Rodney T Ogawa

Fitting Leaders to School Organizations

Administrator Succession in School Organizations

PART THREE: CONCLUDING ESSAY

Samuel B Bacharach and Bryan Mundell

The Implicit Action beneath Explicit Organizing Models

While old, the topics were still in line with the issues raised in the course I offered.

Jeffrey Lewis

Organizational Studies, Pitzer College

October 8, 2013

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