Organizing for School Change
- ISBN-10
- 0415362261
- ISBN-13
- 9780415362269
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 371
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Karen Seashore Louis
Description
"Drawing on a wide and comprehensive list of sources, the ideas brought together in this collection will prove invaluable and insightful, reading for practitioners of school change and academic researchers alike. Pulling together the themes that are threaded throughout Karen Seashore Louis' work will stimulate both newcomers and veterans of the field of school change and improvement to consider research and craft in a new ways."--Jacket.
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