The SAGE Handbook of School Organization

Contents
	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Notes on the Editors and Contributors
	Acknowledgements
1:
An Introduction to School Organization
Part I:
 Schools as Organizations
	2: Organizations, Organizing, and Schools: Accessing Theoretical Tools and Models in 
Organization Theory
	3: Historical Perspectives on 
Schools as Organizations
Part II:
The Leadership, Management and Governance of Schools as Organizations
	4: Conceptions of the Leadership and Management of Schools as Organizations
	5: Managing the School Organization
	6: Competing Narratives of Leadership in Schools: 
The Institutional and Discursive Turns in Organizational Theory
	7: Governing and Governance of Schools as Organizations
Part III:
Theoretical Perspectives on Schools as Organizations
	8: Structural Perspectives on Schools as Organizations
	9: Too Legit to Quit: Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Schools as Organizations
	10: 
School Organization: Authority, Status and the Role of Love as an Integrative Power
	11: Organizational Culture in Schools: A Review of A Widely Misunderstood Concept
	12: Inter-Organizational  Networks in Education
	13: Feelings, Moods, and Emotion in Schools: Affective Perspectives
	14: Boundary Perspectives on 
Schools as Organizations
	15: Systems Thinking in School Organization
	16: The Interactional Nature of Schools as Social Organizations: Three Theoretical Perspectives
	17: School Effectiveness and  School Organization
	18: Inequality in Education: 
What Educators Can and 
Cannot Change
	19: Theorizing Schools 
as Organizations from 
a Feminist Perspective
	20: Queer Theory Perspectives on Schools as Organizations
Part IV:
Organizing in Schools
	21:  Organizing in Schools: 
A Matter of Trust
	22: Understanding Schools as Organizations and the Role of Organized Teachers: Perspectives on Teachers’ Work and Teacher Unions
	23: Schools as Organizations: Accountability Concerns
	24: Organizational Performance Metrics for Schools
	25: National and Transnational Influences on School Organization
	26: Decision-making and the 
School Organization
	27: Lesson Study: Curriculum Management for 21st-century Skills
	28: Beyond Ritualized Rationality: Organizational Dynamics of Instructionally-focused Continuous Improvement
	29: Parental Involvement in Schools as Organizations: Examining Consistent Benefits, Persistent Challenges, and Emerging Issues
	30: Assembling Schools as Organizations: On the Limits and Contradictions of Neoliberalism
	31: The Digital Age: Exploring the Relationship between Technology and School Organization
	32: School-to-School Collaboration: Building Collective Capacity through Collaborative Enquiry
	33: Achieving Education for All: Organizational Issues in African Primary Schools
	34: The School Building as Organizational Agent: Leveraging Physical Learning Environments to Advance the Educational Enterprise
Part V:
 Researching Schools as Organizations
	35: Defining Schools as Social Spaces: A Social Network Approach to Researching Schools as Organizations
	36:  Research Use in Schools: 
A Framework for Understanding Research Use in School-Level Decision Making
	37: Practitioner Research in 
Schools as Organizations
	38: Critical Issues for the Study of School Improvement: Contributions from a Research Program in Chile1
	39: Design-Based School 
Improvement and Research 
for Education Leaders
	40: Reflections on the State of 
School Organization Studies: Continuities and Challenges
Index