Reengineering The Current School Social Transition Period

This study is based on school development of Elementary education stage in the period of social transition, the analysis samples of which are taken from the primary and secondary schools in (Zhangjiagang) an economically developed region in our country. It focuses on the feasibility, development goal and basic path to carrying out the conception of school reengineering of primary and secondary schools.School reform is an eternal theme, yet it is normal to fail in the reform. Based on the reflection of the previous researches and experiments of the school reform, this study have put forward such a conception as "Reengineering the school", that is, the school is active in redesigning and reconstruction of itself to form a steady and efficient education system and maintain a sustainable self-renewal and progress. In this conception, the study focuses on three layers of meaning. Firstly, school reengineering means the school takes the initiative to redesign and reconstruct itself to provide more high-quality school education as the main target of self-renewal. Secondly, school reengineering means reconstructing the school on the whole, realizing the transformation from the school conceptual system, institutional framework to the life style of teachers and students. Thirdly, school reengineering promotes the school system to generate power to maintain the school development and constant progress.This study attempt to build a systematic model in which the school has the capacity of self-reconstruction through plenty of research into experiments on school reengineering. In this systematic capacity model, the researcher mainly deal with its five parts. Regional leadership and evaluation are a prerequisite for the realization of the school reengineering. We emphasize school reconstruction must be an individual practice in the big environment of regional education reform. The system design and the school leader’s courage are two basic points, in which the system design is emphasized on the overall planning and top-level design. However, we think it is very critical for school leaders to play the proper role, especially their courage, which is the decisive factor in school reconstruction. Network organization and coordination and constant improvement of teaching are the most important targets in the process of school reengineering, which we’ll put them together for discussion because they are both about the co-operation of members in school reconstruction.The significance of this study is that we should set a perspective goal for school reengineering in the "post-transition society".The researcher suppose various parts of our country will gradually enter the "post transitional society" in the near future, when school reengineering is a wise choice of school reform and an inevitable tend of school development.