Helps educators develop the knowledge and skills they need for reading and interpreting the patterns that constitute the social texts of everyday life in school organizations, thus becoming empowered to initiate effective schoolwide change efforts.

Contents: Preface. Organizational Literacy and Social Patterns. Bureaucratic Social Patterns and Schools. Political Social Patterns and Schools. Communal Social Patterns and Schools. Patterns of Inequality: Earlier Critical Approaches to Schooling. Patterns of Inequality: More Recent Critical Approaches to Schooling. Patterns of Inequality: Feminist Approaches to Schooling. Complexity and School Organizations. Cases for Analysis.