Unit 1 - Change Forces

Question 1

Sergiovanni (2000, pp. 154-155) identified six forces affecting school changes. What are they?

Answer 1

Bureaucratic
Personal
Market
Professional
Cultural
Democratic

Question 2

These are rules, mandates, and other requirements intended to provide direct supervision, standardized work process, or standardized outcome used to prescribe change.

Answer 2

Bureaucratic forces

Question 3

These are personalities, leadership styles, and interpersonal skills of change agents that could push for changes to happen in school.

Answer 3

Personal forces

Question 4

These are competition, incentives, and individual choices that are used to motivate change.

Answer 4

Market forces

Question 5

These are standards of expertise, codes of conduct, collegiality, felt obligations, and other professional norms intended to build a professional community to compel change.

Answer 5

Professional forces

Question 6

These are shared values, goals, and ideas about pedagogy, relationships, and politics intended to build a covenantal community that is used to compel change.

Answer 6

Cultural forces

Question 7

These are democratic social contacts that are shared commitments to the common good intended to build a community that is used to compel change.

Answer 7

Democratic forces

Question 8

Due to these forces, schools must build internal commitment to _____ and _____.

Answer 8

change; positive social transformation

Question 9

This means all faculty, administrators, and staff experience a high degree of ownership and a feeling of responsibility for the changes they wish to make.

Answer 9

Internal commitment