Stability and Change - Louis, Karen Seashore

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Sommaire:
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 WasImplementation?.- 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.