Author | Rosenblum, Sheila. author |
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Title | Stability and Change [electronic resource] : Innovation in an Educational Context / by Sheila Rosenblum, Karen Seashore Louis |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1981 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3234-3 |
Descript | XVII, 352 p. online resource |
1 Introduction -- Why Study Change in Rural Schools? -- The Federal Role in Education -- Basic Premises of the Rural Experimental Schools Program -- The Research Context -- Research Themes and Issues -- Overview of this Volume -- 2 The Research Context -- Elements of the Rational Approach to Change: The Stages of Change -- Elements of the Natural-Systems Approach to the Study of Change: The Systems Framework -- System Linkage and the Systems Framework -- 3 Methodology And Research Procedures -- The Context of the Study -- General Approach to Data Collection -- Strategies for Measurement and Analysis -- 4 On The Brink Of Change: The Federal Level And The Local Level -- Assumptions Underlying the Experimental Schools Program -- The Ten Rural School Districts and Their Readiness for Change -- 5 The Beginning Of Change: The Planning Year -- Federal Expectations for the Planning Period -- The Products of the Planning Process: An Overview of the ES Program -- The Assessment of Effective Initiation -- Whose Plan? -- 6 The Implementation Of Planned Change In Schools -- Measures of Implementation at the School Level -- A Descriptive Analysis of the Scope of Implementation in Schools -- Variations in Implementation within Districts -- Social System Characteristics: The Variables and Their Measures -- The Effect of System Characteristics on Implementation -- 7 Further Exploration Of Implementation In Schools -- Comparing the Contributions of Structure, Culture, and Input Variables to School Change -- Explaining Joint Contributions of Structure, Culture, and Input -- How Does the Structuring of Authority Affect Implementation? -- How Does System Linkage Affect School Implementation? -- Conclusions -- 8 Comprehensive Change At The District Level -- Measuring Implementation at the District Level -- How Comprehensive Was Implementation? -- Factors Related to Implementation -- Conclusions -- 9 The Continuation Of Change -- Our Approach to Investigating Continuation -- Factors Affecting the Outcomes of Change -- 10 Conclusions And Implications -- Contributions to a Theory of Change in Organizational Settings -- Implications for the Design and Management of Educational Change Programs -- References -- Appendix A Site-By-Site Descriptions Of The Ten Es Projects As Implemented And Continued -- Appendix B Instruments -- Appendix C Correlation Matrix Of Independent Variables -- Author Index