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The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation
Robert Evans
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Description for The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation
Paperback. Examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation, and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who feel burdened by the change process. The author provides a model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation between leaders of change and the people they depend. Num Pages: 336 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JNK; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation between leaders of change and the people they depend upon to implement it.
In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a framework of cooperation between leaders of change and the people they depend upon to implement it.
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787956110
SKU
V9780787956110
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99-1
About Robert Evans
Robert Evans is a clinical and organizational psychologist and director of the Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Massachusetts. A former high school and preschool teacher, he has consulted with hundreds of schools and districts throughout America and around the world and has worked extensively with teachers, administrators, school boards, and state education officials .
Reviews for The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation
"A unique, superb, and penetrating analysis of the human side of educational change. Evans knows the human realities of change and portrays them vividly in both individual and organizational terms. His discussion of hope and realism in the final chapter is a gem." (Michael Fullan, dean, Faculty of Education, University of Toronto) "Evans certainly understands what gets ... Read more