The Human Side of School Change Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation

by Evans, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780787956110
• ISBN10: 0787956112
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-18
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

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.

Author Biography

ROBERT EVANS is a clinical and organizational psychologist and director of the Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Mass. A former high school and preschool teacher, he has consulted to hundreds of schools and districts throughout America and around the world and has worked extensively with teachers, administrators, school boards, and state education officials.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
The Author	xvii
Part One: The Nature of Change
Changing Paradigms	3	(18)
The Meanings of Change	21	(19)
The Culture of Resistance	40	(15)
Part Two: Dimensions of Change
Implementation: Tasks of Transition	55	(19)
Substance: New Agendas, Old Problems	74	(17)
Staff: Understanding Reluctant Faculty	91	(28)
Setting: Assessing Organizational Capacity	119	(26)
Leadership: Old Paradoxes, New Promise	145	(38)
Part Three: Leading Innovation
The Authentic Leader	183	(23)
Clarity and Focus: The Power of Concentration	206	(23)
Participation---Without Paralysis	229	(25)
Recognition: Reversing the Golden Rule	254	(18)
Confrontation: Avoiding Avoidance	272	(17)
Reach and Realism, Experience and Hope	289	(12)
References	301	(10)
Index	311