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.
Managing the School Organization
Managing the School Organization
Introduction and Overview
This chapter explores the role of schools as important, highly visible, public institutions and the role of school leaders in managing them, particularly in times of resource constraint, high-stakes accountability and policy turbulence. To provide this discussion with both history and context, the chapter begins with a brief overview of the evolution of schools as institutions (Culbertson, 1988), changing from communities to organizations, and potentially back to more communitarian institutions (Sergiovanni, 1994; Jacobson, 1998). It starts with a review of the expansion and evolution of schools in the United States (US) that covers almost two centuries of growth fueled primarily by industrialization and waves of immigration. The growth ...
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