A Study of the Ideology of Organizational Change in Schools: The Case of a Junior High School

Author: Nai-Ying Whang(Department of Education, National Taiwan Normal University)

Vol.&No.：Vol. 50, No. 1
Date：April 2005
Pages：101-121
DOI：10.3966/2073753X2005045001005

Abstract：

This study explored how ideology influences organizational change in Taiwan’s secondary schools. Organizational change in schools means the adoption of a new idea by an organization; ideology refers to a set of closely related ideas. Therefore, ideology as a medium will influence the direction of organizational change in schools. In general, the ideology of organizational change in schools may be defined as the process of forming new value systems. Ideology itself involves positive and negative conceptual systems: these will cause different patterns of change, and different strategies for implementing change and different qualities of change in schools. In order to understand these phenomena, the present study used a qualitative approach to collect the data. It uses a junior high school as the basis for its analysis.

Keywords：organizational change in schools, ideology, patterns of change, qualities of change

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