Managing Complex Educational Change - 9780415200974

Taylor & Francis

Discusses ways to manage the process of putting major change into practice in schools. The book draws on the latest thinking from business and education on how to manage change in this chaotic context. > \nWhy is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change?\nThis book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially impacting and context dependent. These characteristics affected management tasks, generating ambiguity in the change process that limited managers' capacity to control it. The authors offer four management themes as realistic strategies for coping with complex educational change:\n*orchestration\n*flexible planning and coordination\n*culture building and communication\n*differentiated sup.