This book analyzes and explains the changes which have been made to bring about improvement and shares the successful improvement practices with other schools within the UK.
Chris James is Professor of Educational Management at the University of Glamorgan Business School. Una Connolly is a Project Research Fellow at the University of Glamorgan.
List of figures
vi
List of tables
vii
Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction
1
(6)
The Improving Schools Project
7
(9)
Educational change
16
(31)
The institutional transformation perspective
47
(29)
The challenge: the schools in the pre-acceleration stage
76
(13)
Initiating change: moving into the acceleration stage
89
(20)
Living with change: the acceleration stage
109
(16)
Going strategic: the post-acceleration stage
125
(15)
The leadership of educational transformation
140
(21)
Some final considerations
161
(6)
Appendix: the work undertaken by the project to enhance collaboration
167
(2)
Annotated bibliography
169
(6)
References
175
(2)
Index
177
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