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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830896703321

Autore

Schlechty Phillip C. <1937->

Titolo

Leading for learning [[electronic resource] ] : how to transform schools into learning organizations / / Phillip C. Schlechty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, Calif., : Jossey-Bass, c2009

ISBN

1-282-24230-X

9786613813428

1-118-26949-7

0-470-63627-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Disciplina

371.2/070973

371.2070973

Soggetti

School improvement programs - United States

School management and organization - United States

Educational change - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-318) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The case for transformation -- Systems and technological change -- Bureaucracies versus learning organizations -- Bureaucratic images of schools -- A new image of schools -- The bureaucratic impulse -- Reassessing standards -- Restoring civic capacity and building social capital : two keys to school transformation -- Painting a new image of schools -- Creating the capacity to support innovation -- Standards into sources of direction -- A theory of action -- Engaging the heart and recapturing our heritage.

Sommario/riassunto

Written by acclaimed school reform advocate Phillip C. Schlechty, Leading for Learning offers educators the framework, tools, and processes they need to transform their schools from bureaucracies into dynamic learning organizations. Schlechty explains how to move beyond some of the deeply ingrained and negative conceptions of schooling that guide so much of their practice. He shows educators how they can take advantage of new learning technologies by increasing their organization's capacity to support continuous innovation.  ""Clearly not for the fainthearted, Schlechty's engrossing ap