Managing Change in Education: Individual and Organizational Perspectives

Nigel Bennett, Megan Crawford, Colin Riches

SAGE Publications, Nov 28, 1992 - Education - 310 pages

'This is an interestingly eclectic selection of material on the management of change in education' - Managing Schools Today

A key theme of this book is that change is not just about the creation of new policies and procedures to implement external mandates. It is also about the strategies by which individuals respond to the impact of structural and cultural change; about personal change as much as organizational change; about the place of values in framing organizational form and culture, as well as those which look at individual and group responses to the pressures which they feel.

This is a companion volume to Managing the Effective School edited by Margaret Preedy. It is the

About the author

Dr Megan Crawford is Professor and Director of Plymouth Institute of Education and was formerly Reader in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and Deputy Head of the Faculty. . Her research encompasses principal preparation, teacher development, and emotion and leadership. She teaches on Masters and Doctoral programme and is especially interested in the relationship between theory and practice. Megan is a National Leader of Governance in England, and has been a governor at six primary and secondary schools. She is currently Chair of Governors of an outstanding secondary school which she has been with since it was a green field. She is on the Executive of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS www.belmas.org.uk.), and was its Chair from 2009-11 Megan has worked internationally in diverse places including Canada, Japan, and Iceland. Megan’s previous book on emotion and leadership was published in 2009.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Managing Change in Education: Individual and Organizational Perspectives; Administration and Leadership Series; Open University Set Book; Published in association with The Open University
• Editors: Nigel Bennett, Megan Crawford, Colin Riches
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 1992
• ISBN: 1853962112, 9781853962110
• Length: 310 pages
• Subjects: Education / Administration / General