Planning And Effecting Needed Changes In Education

CONTENTS. -- no. 1. Prospective chages in society by 1980. -- no. 2. Implications for education of prospective changes in society. -- no. 3. Planning and effecting needed changes in education. -- no. 4. Cooperative planning foreducation in 1980. -- no. 5. Emerging designs for education. -- no. 6. Planning for effective utilization of technology in education. -- no. 7. Preparing educators to meet emerging needs.

Abstract: This textbook presents techniques and procedures for planning and implementing of plans in educational administration. The publication includes theoretical as well as practical information about human resources management in educational administration. Topics include: the planning process; putting plans into action; fiscal planning; participation and the planning process; group involvement and communication; task planning and coordination; decision making; reducing resistance through organizational development; and, planning for educational futures.

This book highlights the current ideas about the what, why and how of educational change and what these suggest about the essential issues that change policy makers and planners need to consider. It analyses international case studies of change initiatives to illustrate how the change process can be affected when such issues are insufficiently acknowledged or ignored. Finally the book introduces a number of key questions for educational change practitioners to consider when they find themselves responsible for the planning and/or implementation and/or monitoring of changes within an institution, a locality or a region. Educational change scenarios, from change within a single institution to local implementation of a national change, are used to show how answers to these questions can help change planners to closely match their implementation processes to their local contextual realities.

Mar. 29 hearing held in Austin, Tex.