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EDUCATION
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YOU AND YOUR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS:
STRATEGIES FOR OPERATING SUCCESSFULLY WITHIN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
FALL, 1980
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INSTRUCTOR: P. Coleman
CAMPUS
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Thursdays 1+:30 - 8:30
RATIONALE:
The purpose of this course is to provide students with some basic information on how
educational organizations, particularly schools and school districts, are administered.
Some implications of this information will be discussed, in particular in form of
strategies for operating successfully in those organizations, and reconcilin
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purposes and needs with organizational imperatives. The course is intended for
prospective organizational members.
OUTLINE:
Major questions arising for organizational members, in each of the following areas,
will be discussed. The questions which follow are illustrative.
1.
ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS AND PURPOSES
Can one reconcile personal and professional goals with organizational purposes
in a successful manner?
2.
AUTHORITY AND CONTROL
What is the nature of a professional bureaucracy, and how does it affect its
members?
3.
PROGRAMS AND INSTRUCTION
Who
decides
on what and how to teach, and why?
4.
COMMUNICATION AND MORALE
Why do messages flow downwards in hierachies more easily than upwards?
5.
RESOURCES: "GETTING AND SPENDING"
How are the major resources, time and money acquired and allocated, and how can
you get your share?
6.
SOME ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES: DECIDING, CHANGING, EVALUATING
How do major decisions get made, how do lasting organizational changes occur,
how is evaluation handled, and how can you usefully participate in these processes?
TEXTS:
CAPLOW, 1.; HOW TO RUN ANY ORGANIZATION: A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL SOCIOLOGY; Dryden Press,
Huisdale, Illinois, 1976