The main aim of any education system is
to provide effective teaching and learning for its community through specific
aims/objectives, an education policy, and various processes and programmes, all
of which are in constant interaction with the environment and its contextual
coordinates. The school, as one of the structures within this system, is
responsible for bringing all of these things to the area it serves. It consists
of a unique grouping of people, and any educational manager and leader needs to
have a basic knowledge of the school as an organisation in order to manage and
lead it effectively, particularly in the arena of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution. Schools as organisations focuses on different perspectives of
organisational theory in education.
Schools as organisations discusses how, as is the case in
any organisation, the presence of people within the school gives it a unique
character of communality and creates certain relationships, which means that
mutual arrangements have to be made in terms of task distribution and the
exercising of authority.
Contents include the following:
·
The contextual coordinates of the school as an
organisation: the global, the national and the local education system and
societal contexts
· General characteristics of the school
as an organisation
· Organisational culture, climate and
health, and health-promoting schools
· Organisational development and the
quality of working life in schools
· Organisational change and resistance to
change
· Total quality management in educational
organisations
· A framework for the management of
diversity
· Management strategies for the caring
role of the educational leader
· School 4.0 in the context of the Fourth
Industrial Revolution
Schools as organisations is essential for postgraduate students
in the fields of educational management, leadership and organisational theory
in education. In addition, leaders and managers at all levels in the education
system will find the book an invaluable resource.
SECTION 1: The education system as
an organisation
SECTION 2: Organisational theory
of the school
SECTION 3: The organisational
ecology of the school
SECTION 4: Organisational change
SECTION 5: Organisational
development
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