The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation (Jossey Bass Education Series) - Hardcover

Evans, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0787903183 ISBN 13: 9780787903183

Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1996

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In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation between leaders of change and the people they depend upon to implement it.

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ROBERT EVANS is a clinical and organizational psychologist and the director of the Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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"A unique, superb, and penetrating analysis of the human side of educational change. Evans knows the human realities of change and portrays them vividly in both individual and organizational terms. His discussion of hope and realism in the final chapter is a gem." Michael Fullan, dean, Faculty of Education, University of TorontoThe Human Side of School Change provides practical advice on problem solving, communication, and staff motivation. Concentrating on the realities of life in schools and the common personal barriers to change, Evans illuminates the key sources of resistance to school reform. Grounding his work in a thorough understanding of human behavior and organizational functioning, he provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation, not conflict, between the leaders of change and the people they depAnd upon to implement it.

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In this insightful look at the human side of school reform, Robert Evans examines the difficult hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intAnded efforts can be stalled by the resistance of educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process.The Human Side of School Change provides practical advice on problem solving, communication, and staff motivation. It argues for more realistic expectations about the pace of reform and the performance of leaders. And it presents a way of approaching all school improvement a conceptual framework for understanding change as a process, educators as people, and leadership as a craft. By concentrating on the realities of life in schools and the common personal barriers to change, Evans illuminates the key sources of resistance to school reform. Grounding his work in a thorough understanding of human behavior and organizational functioning, he provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation, not conflict, between the leaders of change and the people they depAnd upon to implement it.

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• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0787903183
• ISBN 13: 9780787903183
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 317
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