Educational organizations in the light of change and suggestions for adaptation to change

Abstract

Often seen as an inevitable action, change has some effects on educational organizations as well as on everything else. These effects prompt educational organizations to review their actions for adaptation to change. This situation necessitates understanding of change. In this context, this study aims to examine education organizations in the light of change and to develop suggestions for adaptation to change. In order to understand the concept of change firstly, autopopulation, chaos and complexity theories, and mutual causality and dialectical change logic are defined in this subject. In this context, first of all the theories of autopoiesis, chaos and complexity, and the logic of mutual causality and dialectical change were defined in order to facilitate understanding of the concept of change. After being addressed these four basic ideas underlying the logic of change in terms of organizations, the concepts of autopoietic, chaotic, and complex organizations were identified, and the cases of mutual causality and dialectical change in organizations were intellectualized. In addition, the flow and transformation metaphors were exploited to probe the concept of change. After then, the concept of change of which conceptual basis was constituted with the theories of autopoiesis, chaos and complexity, the logic of mutual causality and dialectic change, the metaphors of flow and transformation, and adaptation to change was examined in terms of educational organizations, and the suggestions on what can be done within the scope of education management in terms of schools, administrators, teachers, and students about change adaptation were presented.