Campus Location
Dallas Campus (Online)
Date of Award
12-2019
Document Type
Dissertation
Department
Organizational Leadership
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Committee Chair or Primary Advisor
Peter Williams
Second Committee Member or Secondary Advisor
Jennifer Butcher
Third Committee Member or Committee Reader
Deardra Hayes-Whigham
Abstract
In this case study, the researcher investigated the barriers to school administrators’ implementation of restorative practices as a management approach to student behavior. Based on the claim that restorative practices is a promising alternative to exclusionary disciplinary placements for changing behavior, the researcher used an emergent explanatory mixed methods design to better understand administrators’ resistance to change despite overwhelming evidence that exclusionary disciplinary practices are the primary contributors to national trends in disciplinary disproportionality and institutional discrimination. The researcher identified and analyzed barriers to create recommendations for addressing administrators’ resistance through organizational change strategies using systems theory.
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Recommended Citation
Deister, Beri, "Investigating Administrators’ Resistance to Implementing Restorative Practices" (2019). Digital Commons @ ACU, Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 176.
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/etd/176