Organisation and Change within Educational Systems: Some Implications of a Loose-coupling Model

Abstract

Stephen Horne is a Lecturer at St Helens Community College. In this paper he considers the work of a small LEA as it sought to implement change in community education and in TVEI. In order to try to shape and inform his understanding of the process of change the author draws upon loose-coupling theory. In the final section Horne attempts to draw some rather more general lessons about the mechanisms of change which might assist change agents who work at the LEA/school interface.