Organizational Learning in Schools

by Leithwood,Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9789026515392
• ISBN10: 9026515391
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Franci

Summary

This volume presents the view that what matters most are learning processes in organizations and ways of enhancing the sophistication and power of these processes. Each contributor, therefore, explicitly addresses the meaning(s) of organizational learning which they have adopted themselves.

Table of Contents

Organizational Learning in Schools: An Introduction	1	(16)
Kenneth Leithwood
Karen Seashore Louis
Part I
Creating Community in Reform: Images of Organizational Learning in Inner-City Schools	17	(30)
Karen Seashore Louis
Sharon D. Kruse
Informal Learning Communities and their Effects	47	(20)
Miriam Ben-Peretz
Shifra Schonmann
Leadership and other Conditions which Foster Organizational Learning in Schools	67	(26)
Kenneth Leithwood
Doris Jantzi
Rosanne Steinbach
Part II
Talking about Restructuring: Using Concept Maps	93	(34)
Jean A. King
Jeffrey Allen
Khahm Nguyen
Organizational Consequences of Participatory Evaluation: School District Case Study	127	(22)
J. Bradley Cousins
Professional Development Schools as Contexts for Teacher Learning and Leadership	149	(28)
Linda Darling-Hammond
Velma Cobb
Marcella Bullmaster
Learning about Organizational Learning	177	(26)
Coral Mitchell
Larry Sackney
Part III
Team Learning Processes	203	(16)
Kenneth Leithwood
Intellectual Roots of Organizational Learning	219	(18)
J. Bradley Cousins
School Development and Organizational Learning: Toward an Integrative Theory	237	(24)
Janna C. Voogt
Nijs A.J. Lagerweij
Karen Seashore Louis
Part IV
Organizational Learning and Current Reform Efforts: From Exploitation to Exploration	261	(14)
Sam Stringfield
From Organizational Learning to Professional Learning Communities	275	(11)
Karen Seashore Louis
Kenneth Leithwood
Author Index	286	(4)
Subject Index	290