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Download full textBozkus, Kivanc – Online Submission, 2014
Social system perspective which belongs to systems theory has been elaborated comprehensively using its founders' ideas, and characteristics of schools have been explained consulting to this perspective. The course of social system idea has been reviewed along with its relation to other systems. How researchers who assumes schools as social…
Descriptors: Schools, Social Systems, Systems Approach, Models
Peer reviewedHills, Jean – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
Responds to an earlier comment, in a continuing discussion of Parsonian functional imperatives and their basis in observation, their intellectual status, their ability to be tested empirically, and the number of imperatives. (RW)
Descriptors: Models, Observation, Social Structure, Social Systems
Ehrenhaus, Peter – 1981
A conceptual model of the rhetorical community that addresses the sociodramatic processes through which social order evolves, is maintained, can change, and is threatened is presented in this paper. Following an introduction, the paper identifies the various uses of rhetorical vision and rhetorical community that are found in fantasy theme…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Communities, Fantasy, Models
Peer reviewedBlocher, Donald H. – Counseling Psychologist, 1977
This article presents a systematic eclectic model for organizational change. It is a proactive model in which the change agent defines goals, assesses needs, and reaches out in an active, purposeful way to intervene in the target system. Paper prepared for the Chicago, 1975 Convention of the American Psychological Association. (Author/BP)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Humanistic Education
Duffy, Francis M. – 1994
This paper summarizes a new paradigm of instructional supervision, which shifts the focus on supervision from an examination of individual behavior to the improvement of work processes and social system components of the school district. The paradigm, called "Knowledge Work Supervision," helps teams of teachers and specially trained supervisors…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Models, Organizational Theories
Duffy, Francis M. – 1994
This paper summarizes a new paradigm of instructional supervision, which shifts the focus from individual behavior to the improvement of work processes and social system components of the school district. The proposed paradigm, the Knowledge Work Supervision model, is derived from sociotechnical systems design theory and linked to the premise that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Models, Organizational Theories
Smith, Louis M.; Geoffrey, William – 1968
This book is devoted to a systems analysis of the teaching process in a single slum school classroom in which the teacher was a participant-observer researcher. The research approach used in the study is termed the "microethnography of the classroom" and is derived from social and behavioral theory. Chapters are devoted to the methodology of this…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum
