A Review of the Literature and Debates in the Field of Change in Educational Organisations.

The article explores several collections of books and literature concerned with change in educational organizations. The three groups of schools of literature on change are people-based studies, power-based studies and gradualist studies. There are more papers dealing with ideas and thoughts in the form of theories and models than there are studies with real data and examples which can be used to illustrate action or to generate further study. It would be necessary for prospective researchers to become familiar with the key texts in the three schools.