Flexible Planning: A Key to the Management of Multiple Innovations
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational Management & Administration
- Vol. 19 (3) , 180-192
- https://doi.org/10.1177/174114329101900308
Abstract
Schools in England and Wales are currently faced with the implementation of a plethora of change. On the basis of recent exploratory research the author, a lecturer in the National Development Centre for Educational Management and Policy at the University of Bristol, proposes a model of flexible planning for the management of multiple innovations. Such an approach, he suggests, can help schools to cope with an increasingly turbulent environment in a way in which a procedure which over-relies upon the production of annual development plans may not.Keywords
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