International handbook of educational change - Andy Hargreaves

The International Handbook of Educational Change is a
state of the art collection of the most important ideas and evidence
of educational change. The book brings together some of the most
influential thinkers and writers on educational change. It deals with
issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring,
culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. It
asks why some people resist change and what their resistance means. It
looks at how men and women, older teachers and younger teachers,
experience change differently. It looks at the positive aspects of
change but does not hesitate to raise uncomfortable questions about
many aspects of educational change either. It looks critically and
controversially at the social, economic, cultural and political forces
that are driving educational change. School leaders, system
administration, teacher leaders, consultants, facilitators,
educational researchers, staff developers and change agents of all
kinds will find this book an indispensable resource for guiding them
to both classic and cutting-edge understandings of educational change,
no other work provides as comprehensive coverage of the field of
educational change.