1st Edition

Managing Change in Schools A Practical Handbook

By Colin Newton, Tony Tarrant Copyright 1992
    266 Pages
    by Routledge

    266 Pages
    by Routledge

    Written by two educational psychologists, this essential aid shows how change can be managed to increase job satisfaction and avoid unnecessary stress and conflict.
    * offers practical advice for schools with action plans
    * outlines the mechanics and processes in self-appraisal
    * analyses the key methods for promoting effective change
    * shows ways to monitor, review and evaluate change
    * examines a number of strategies including consultation, negotiation, project development and in-service training

    Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Why change now?, 2. Evaluating your organisation, 3. Children learn - so can schools, 4. Visions and objectives, 5. Consultation and negotiation, 6. Policy development, objectives and INSET, 7. Successful in-service training, 8. Research and development, 9. Evaluating and monitoring change, 10. The human factor of change, 11. Surviving imposed change, Conclusion: Speculating about future change, Bibliography, Index

    Biography

    Colin Newton, Tony Tarrant

    `I warmed to this book. It does appreciate the complexity of managing change in a people-oriented profession and.. their approach is both consistent and wlecome in its emphasis on the fact that our task is to promote change in a human `target' (our young people) and to do so largely through the medium of other people (our colleagues)...there is very considerable value in this book, and I like its philosophical stance. It should usefully reinforce or enlighten many of us in our talk as leading school-change agents.' - Headlines

    `..a very readable and practical book.' - Managing Schools Today

    `Managing Change in Schools is indeed a practical handbook, grounded in a selective application of a range of psychological theory, its ideas are straightforward and clearly expressed. It wears its theory lightly, and is accessible as well as provocative and encouraging. The authors draw on a store of research into schools as organisations and what makes them effective, never forgetting that they are made up of people.' - Educational Psychology in Practice