Organizing for School Change (Contexts of Learning) - Hardcover

Seashore Louis, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415362261 ISBN 13: 9780415362269

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Improving education is a key priority for governments around the world. While many suggestions on how best to achieve this are currently under debate, years of academic research have already revealed more about how to encourage change than is sometimes assumed.

This volume brings together for the first time some of the most significant work of Karen Seashore Louis, one of the foremost thinkers and researchers in the field. Organizing for School Change presents a unique variety of research-based results from studies conducted over the past twenty-five years. What emerges is not an idealistic plan, but a realistic picture of what needs to be done if schools are to be made better.

Drawing on a wide and comprehensive list of sources, the ideas brought together in this collection will prove invaluable and insightful reading, stimulating both newcomers and veterans of the field to consider educational research in new ways.

About this title

About the Author:

Karen Seashore Louis is Professor, Department of Educational Policy and Administration, at the University of Minnesota. She has more than 30 years experience of studying school improvement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415362261
• ISBN 13: 9780415362269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392