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Gjerde, Per F. – 1983
Although schools have served as a major target of both educational and mental-health oriented interventions, they have shown a marked tendency to assimilate innovative programs into existing patterns. This paper analyzes the sources and manifestations of resistance to change in schools and discusses the implications of such resistance for the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics
Orban, Deborah A.; Abedor, Allan J. – Journal of Instructional Development, 1985
Describes problems in faculty evaluation and performance appraisal and presents assumptions and features of newer alternative faculty evaluation systems. A strategy for developing systems which is based on organizational change theory is discussed. This system involves use of committees and structured phases for faculty input. (MBR)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Evaluation
Cuthbert, Alexander M. – 1985
Educational policy research has yet to account for the movement and manifestations of federal and state policies in local school districts. In an effort to describe and explain major consequences of policy, this study examines the policy ingression process (the movement of policy in the form of statute and regulation from the district…
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship
Bentley, Ernest L., Jr.; Campbell, Beverly – 1986
This paper presents organizational strategies and implementation methods for conversion to middle school organization (scheduled to take place in 1988) in the Johnson City, Tennessee, school system. Carried out by the district in partnership with local institutions of higher education, the study focuses on what is educationally best for the child…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textVandenberghe, Roland – 1987
The Renewed Primary School project in Belgium is analyzed in this paper in terms of organizational response to a large-scale innovation, which is characterized by its multidimensionality, by the large number of participating schools, and by a complex support structure. Section 2 of the report presents an elaborated description of these…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Jakes, Harold E. – Ontario Education, 1984
In contrast to the problems and policies of school boards of the 1950's and 1960's, when school enrollments increased at an unprecedented rate, the problems of school boards in the 1970's became those of retrenchment. Responding to the issues of declining enrollments and fiscal restraints, the Ontario Ministry of Education in 1981 required every…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, Change Strategies, Criteria
