Summary
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The SAGE Handbook of School Organization presents a substantial review of the history, current status and future prospects of the field of school organization. Bringing together chapters exploring key issues, important debates and points of tension, the Handbook highlights the dynamics and interplay of the political, social, historical and cultural contexts of the field. This volume is designed to provide a much-needed critically informed and coherent account of the field, against a backdrop of increasing complexity in which schooling as an institution and schools as organizations operate. Part I: Schools as organizations; Part II: The leadership, management and governance of schools as organizations; Part III: Theoretical perspectives on schools as organizations; Part IV: Organizing in schools; and Part V: Researching schools as organizations.
Structural Perspectives on Schools as Organizations
Structural Perspectives on Schools as Organizations
Introduction
Being scholars, readers likely remember what it felt like being picked last for the kickball team at recess. This sensation explains our first reactions when the editors of this volume asked us if we would be interested in contributing a chapter on structural models. Structural models are the dregs of organization theory, the uncoordinated non-athlete who must be allowed to play, the example of what not to do. They are barely tolerated in organization theory discussions, believed to be passé, overly simplistic, unsophisticated and generally limited in helping to describe, explain and predict important phenomena in organizational life. Structural ...
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