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ERIC Number: EJ679982
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0038-0407
Analyzing Schools as Organizations: Long-term Permanence and Short-term Change.
Bidwell, Charles E.
Sociology of Education, p100-14 2001
Reviews principal theoretical developments in the study of schools as organizations, particularly neo-institutional theory and analysis of faculty workplace. Discusses a theoretical approach integrating these developments including institutional constraints on schools, administrative responses to them, and networks of informal faculty ties. Suggests implications and approaches for further study. (CAJ)
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Role, Leadership, School Districts, School Effectiveness, School Organization, School Role, Social Networks, Sociology
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Note: Sociology of Education is a refereed journal. Theme Issue: Currents of Thought: Sociology of Education at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Extra 2001 Issue.