A naturalistic examination of successful change in junior high schools

"Having successfully orchestrated a substantial change in his own junior high school, the author went to the literature on change in educational organizations for insight into the change process. The literature, though quite pessimistic about change in schools, did offer a kind of classic change implementation model. The model paralleled quite accurately the pattern of implementation followed by the administrator in his school, though he had employed a mere ""common-sensical"" approach. The problems presented themselves clearly: if the appropriate approach to the implementation of change in a school setting is so pedestrian, why is it that the literature is so pessimistic, and why do so many change attempts apparently meet with failure? And conversely, why was this change attempt, and other similar change experiences, successful?"

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Voris, James Kirkham

• Education, Administration
• Education, Secondary

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Voris, James Kirkham

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9011064
(UMI)AAI9011064

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20501