How Colleges Change - Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change

Informationen zum Autor Adrianna Kezar is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Southern California! USA. Klappentext Higher education is in an unprecedented time of change and reform. To address these challenges! university leaders tend to focus on specific interventions and programs! but ignore the change processes and the contexts that would lead to success. Joining theory and practice! " How Colleges Change" unmasks problematic assumptions that change agents typically possess and provides research-based principles for approaching change. Framed by decades of research! this monumental book offers fresh insights into understanding! leading! and enacting change. Recognizing that internal and external conditions shape and frame change processes! Kezar presents an overarching practical framework that can be applied to any organizational challenge and context. "How Colleges Change" is a crucial resource for aspiring and practicing campus leaders! higher education practitioners! scholars! faculty! and staff who want to learn how to apply change strategies in their own institutions. Zusammenfassung Higher education is in an unprecedented time of change and reform. To address these challenges! university leaders tend to focus on specific interventions and programs! but ignore the change processes and the contexts that would lead to success. Joining theory and practice! How Colleges Change unmasks problematic assumptions that change agents typically possess and provides research-based principles for approaching change. Framed by decades of research! this monumental book offers fresh insights into understanding! leading! and enacting change. Recognizing that internal and external conditions shape and frame change processes! Kezar presents an overarching practical framework that can be applied to any organizational challenge and context. How Colleges Change is a crucial resource for aspiring and practicing campus leaders! higher education practitioners! scholars! faculty! and staff who want to learn how to apply change strategies in their own institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I : Thinking Differently about ChangeChapter 1: Why Change? Chapter 2: Theories of Change: Some Change Agent BasicsPART II: A Multi-faceted Framework for Understanding Change Chapter 3: Type of Change Chapter 4: Creating Deep ChangeChapter 5: Context of ChangeChapter 6: Leadership and Agency of Change Chapter 7: A Multi-theory Approach to ChangeChapter 8: Change Implementation: Encounters with Resistance and ObstaclesPART III: Challenges for Change Agents in our TimeChapter 9: Scaling up Changes beyond the Institutional LevelChapter 10: The Ethics of Change Conclusion ...

Product details

• Authors: Adrianna Kezar, Adrianna (University of Southern California Kezar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2013
• EAN: 9780415532068
• ISBN: 978-0-415-53206-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system