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- Title
Applying Organizational Theory to Special Education Case Management.
- Authors
Blackwell, William H.; Lilly, Juliana D.
- Abstract
Administrators facemultiple challenges in effectively managing special education programs and services. These challenges include communication failures between stakeholders, inconsistency in implementing policies, difficulty in collaborating withmultiple personnel throughout a district, and inefficiencies in implementing special education services (DiPaola &Walther-Thomas, 2003). An analysis of organizational theory concepts highlights the unique challenges of managing both general and special education programs and services under one organizational structure (a professional bureaucracy) and offers an approach formoving toward another organizational structure (an adhocracy) that may be better suited for implementing the jointly collaborative and individualized nature of special education services and supports. A matrix organizational structure is a potential solution to help move special education case management at the school level more toward an adhocracy. This structuremay help resolve some of the special education management challenges faced by administrators.
- Subjects
SPECIAL education; SCHOOL administration; MANAGEMENT education; SUPPORT services (Education); EDUCATION theory; INDIVIDUALIZED education programs; EDUCATIONAL programs
- Publication
Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2022, Vol 35, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1525-1810
- Publication type
Article