The SAGE Handbook of School Organization

This handbook brings together chapters exploring key issues, important debates and points of tension, in order to create a substantial review of the field of school organization.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the handbook - Michael Connolly, David Eddy-Spicer, Chris James & Sharon Kruse
Part 1: Schools as organizations
Chapter 2: Organizations, organizing, and schools: Accessing Theoretical Tools and Models in Organization Theory - Bob L. Johnson Jr.
Chapter 3: Historical Perspectives on Schools as Organizations - Daniel L. Duke
Part 2: The leadership, management and governance of schools as organizations
Chapter 4: Conceptions of the leadership and management of schools as organizations - Tony Bush
Chapter 5: Managing the School Organization - Stephen L. Jacobson
Chapter 6: Competing Narratives of Leadership in Schools: The Institutional and Discursive Turns in Organizational Theory - Gary L. Anderson& Ethan Chang
Chapter 7: Governing and Governance of Schools as Organizations - Catherine Farrell
Part 3: Theoretical perspectives on schools as organizations
Chapter 8: Structural perspectives on schools as organizations - Scott C. Bauer & S. David Brazer
Chapter 9: Too Legit to Quit: Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Schools as Organizations - Ebony N. Bridwell-Mitchell
Chapter 10: School Organisation: Authority, Status and the Role of Love as an Integrative Power - Philip A. Woods
Chapter 11: Organizational Culture in Schools: A Review of Widely Misunderstood Concept - Michael Connolly & Sharon D. Kruse
Chapter 12: Inter-Organizational Networks in Education - Priscilla Wohlstetter & Angela Gargaro Lyle
Chapter 13: Feelings, moods, and emotion in schools: Affective perspectives - Izhak Berkovich & Ori Eyal
Chapter 14: Boundary perspectives on schools as organizations - David H. Eddy-Spicer & Chris James
Chapter 15: Systems Thinking in School Organization - Chen Schechter & Haim Shaked
Chapter 16: The Interactional Nature of Schools as Social Organizations: Three Theoretical Perspectives - Peter Sleegers, Nienke Moolenaar & Alan J. Daly
Chapter 17: School Effectiveness and School Organization - Jaap Scheerens
Chapter 18: Inequality in Education: What Educators Can and Cannot Change - Kathleen Lynch
Chapter 19: Theorising schools as organisations from a feminist perspective - Jill Blackmore
Chapter 20: Queer theory perspectives on schools as organizations - Katherine Cumings Mansfield
Part 4: Organizing in Schools
Chapter 21: Organizing in schools: A matter of trust - Megan Tschannen-Moran
Chapter 22: Understanding schools as organisations and the role of organised teachers: Perspectives on teachers′ work and teacher unions - Howard Stevenson
Chapter 23: Schools as organizations: Accountability concerns - Melanie Ehren
Chapter 24: Organizational performance metrics for schools - Daniel Muijs
Chapter 25: National and transnational influences on school organization - Chen Yong Tan & Clive Dimmock
Chapter 26: Decision-making and the school organization - Stephanie Chitpin & Colin W. Evers
Chapter 27: Lesson Study: Curriculum Management for 21st Century Skills - Eric C.K. Cheng & John Chi-kin Lee
Chapter 28: Beyond Ritualized Rationality: Organizational Dynamics of Instructionally-Focused Continuous Improvement - Donald J. Peurach, William R. Penuel & Jennifer Lin Russell
Chapter 29: Parental Involvement in Schools as Organizations: Examining Consistent Benefits, Persistent Challenges, and Emerging Issues - Julie W. Dallavis & Mark Berends
Chapter 30: Assembling schools as organisations: On the limits and contradictions of neoliberalism - Andrew Wilkins
Chapter 31: The digital age: Exploring the relationship between technology and schools organization - Vincent Cho, Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, Anna Noble
Chapter 32: School-to-School Collaboration: Building collective capacity through collaborative enquiry - Christopher Chapman
Chapter 33: Achieving Education for All: Organizational Issues in African Primary Schools - Daniel N. Sifuna
Chapter 34: The School Building as Organizational Agent: Leveraging Physical Learning Environments to Advance the Educational Enterprise - Pamela Woolner and Cynthia L. Uline
Part 5: Researching schools as organizations
Chapter 35: Defining Schools as Social Spaces: A Social Network Approach to Researching Schools as Organizations - Joelle Rodway & Alan J. Daly
Chapter 36: Research use in schools: Theory and Evidence - A framework for understanding research use in school-level decision making - Alice Huguet, Lok-Sze Wong, Christopher W. Harrison, Cynthia E. Coburn, & James P. Spillane
Chapter 37: Practitioner research in schools as organizations - Andrew Townsend
Chapter 38: Critical issues for the study of school improvement: Contributions from a research program in Chile - Cristian Bellei, Liliana Morawietz, Juan Pablo Valenzuela & Xavier Vann
Chapter 39: Design-Based School Improvement and Research for Education Leaders - Rick Mintrop, Elizabeth Zumpe, & Mahua Baral
Chapter 40: Summary and reflections - Michael Connolly, David H. Eddy-Spicer, Chris James & Sharon Kruse