Reforms And Innovation In Education

Author : Alexander M. Sidorkin,Mark K. Warford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319602462

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Reforms and Innovation in Education by Alexander M. Sidorkin,Mark K. Warford Pdf

This book investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations, as well as the implications of this relationship for the quality of human capital. By analyzing recent educational reforms in Russia and the US, the authors shed new light on how these reforms may help or hinder innovations, such as the introduction of computer technologies into classrooms, new methods of teacher evaluation, constructivist teaching methods, and governance in public schools. Taking labor economics as a useful lens for conceptualizing the diffusion of innovation, in the first part of the book the authors analyze book how certain power arrangements can block educational innovations in schools. In the second part they examine recent educational reforms in the US and Russia. The final part presents a vision of the next generation of educational reforms, which may enable innovation diffusion, rather than hamper it.

Author : Vincent-Lancrin Stéphan,Urgel Joaquin,Kar Soumyajit,Jacotin Gwénaël
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264311671

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Educational Research and Innovation Measuring Innovation in Education 2019 What Has Changed in the Classroom? by Vincent-Lancrin Stéphan,Urgel Joaquin,Kar Soumyajit,Jacotin Gwénaël Pdf

Measuring innovation in education and understanding how it works is essential to improve the quality of the education sector. Monitoring systematically how pedagogical practices evolve would considerably increase the international education knowledge base. We need to examine whether, and how ...

Author : David Hung,Shu-Shing Lee,Yancy Toh,Azilawati Jamaludin,Longkai Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811363306

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Innovations in Educational Change by David Hung,Shu-Shing Lee,Yancy Toh,Azilawati Jamaludin,Longkai Wu Pdf

This book offers an ecological perspective to understand the opportunities and complexities of spreading and sustaining educational innovations. It explores the imperatives underpinning educational reforms and identifies the role of schools in developing, disseminating, and sustaining changes in Singapore’s educational context. It also includes international case studies that examine the dialectical relationships between structure, people and culture and demonstrate that cultivating ecologies involves leveraging affordances and resources across the education system to create new contexts, synergies and capacities. Further, it argues that educational innovations and reforms also need to consider tacit knowledge and conditions of transfer, which may be ambiguous and challenging. Few books address the nuances and interactions of innovation and change across levels of the education ecology – from the micro (classroom), meso (organisation / school), exo (partners), macro (policy) and chrono (time scales) levels. The ecological perspective adopted in this book explores the dynamic tensions in order to understand the interplays of policy and school-level influences that contextualize school innovations. By presenting multiple voices and views, it allows impediments and affordances of innovation diffusion to be discussed holistically, which is an integral caveat for nurturing a sustainable ecology that enables innovations.

Author : Coulson, David Gregory,Datta, Shammi,Davies, Michael James
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799851080

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Educational Reform and International Baccalaureate in the Asia-Pacific by Coulson, David Gregory,Datta, Shammi,Davies, Michael James Pdf

The need to reform secondary-level education to prepare young people for new economic realities has emerged. In an age of constant career changing, cognitive flexibility is a top-priority skill to develop in today’s students. This shift requires methodological innovation that enhances children’s natural abilities as well as updated, focused teacher education in order to prepare them adequately. Educational Reform and International Baccalaureate in the Asia-Pacific is a collection of innovative research that examines the development and implementation of IB curricula. Highlighting a wide range of topics including critical thinking, student evaluation, and teacher training, this book is ideally designed for educators, curriculum developers, instructional designers, administrative officials, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students.

Author : Milton Chen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118157404

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Education Nation by Milton Chen Pdf

An educational innovator who worked at Sesame Workshop and The George Lucas Educational Foundation offers a new vision for learning As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited by traditional confines and we're moving beyond students tied to their chairs, desks, and textbooks-and teachers locked away in classrooms. In Education Nation author Milton Chen draws from extensive experience in media-from his work on Sesame Street in its nascent years to his role as executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation-to support a vision for a new world of learning. This book, in six chapters, explores the "edges" in education—the places where K-12 learning has already seen revolutionary changes through innovative reform and the use of technology. Examines ways in which learning can be revolutionized through innovative reform and the use of technology Explores the ever-expanding world of technology for breakthroughs in teaching and learning Includes many wonderful resources to support innovation in schools across the nation This important book offers a clear vision for tomorrow's classrooms that will enhance learning opportunities for all children.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030570392

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Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms by Fernando M. Reimers Pdf

This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of development. The study includes system level reforms in jurisdictions where students achieve high levels in international assessments of basic literacies, such as Singapore and Ontario, Canada, as well as in nations where students achieve much lower levels, such as Kenya, Mexico, Punjab-Pakistan and Zimbabwe. The chapters examine system-level reforms that focus on strengthening the capacity to teach the basics, as in Ontario and Pakistan, as well as reforms that aim at building the capacity to teach a much broader set of competencies and skills, such as Kenya, Mexico, Singapore and Zimbabwe. The volume includes systems at very different levels of spending per student and reforms at various points in the cycle of policy implementation, some just starting, some struggling to survive a governmental transition, and others that have been in place for an extended period of time. From the comparative study of these reforms, we aim to provide an understanding of how to build the capacity of education systems to teach 21st century skills at scale in diverse settings.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264265097

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Educational Research and Innovation Innovating Education and Educating for Innovation The Power of Digital Technologies and Skills by OECD Pdf

OECD’s Innovation Strategy calls upon all sectors in the economy and society to innovate in order to foster productivity, growth and well-being. Education systems are critically important for innovation through the development of skills that nurture new ideas and technologies.

Author : Michael Fullan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335231577

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EBOOK: SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT by Michael Fullan Pdf

This book examines the powerful concept of implementation - or what actually happens in practice when innovations or reforms are attempted - by demonstrating its uses in a variety of policy and programme applications.

Author : Michael Fullan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136616099

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Change Forces by Michael Fullan Pdf

Knowledge of the processes of educational change is said to be the missing ingredient in attempts to bring about educational innovation and reform. Whether these efforts involve grass roots innovation or large-scale societal reform, failure to understand and act on existing knowledge of the change process has accounted for the widespread lack of success in making educational improvements. This volume analyzes what is known about successful or productive change processes, and identifies corresponding action strategies at the individual, school, local and state levels. Included in this book is a major treatment of the topic of the 'ethics of planned change', a neglected topic in recent literature, especially since strategies for intervening in the change process are receiving more attention. This book is intended to be used by teachers in training and in service, teacher trainers, educational researchers, education historians and administrators.

Author : Robert White
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Curriculum planning
ISBN : 1626184283

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Curriculum Development, Innovation and Reform by Robert White Pdf

This book provides key contributions by leading international researchers and scholars on a range of perspectives related to improving learning outcomes for students across educational settings from the primary years, through to university and beyond. It will be of interest to school administrators, teachers, researchers and policy makers who are interested in finding new and innovative ways to meet the needs of learners in the globalised world of the 21st century in culturally competent and meaningful ways. Throughout the chapters, a common theme of innovation, reform and overcoming barriers to learning are highlighted and the reader will gain a considerable knowledge of strategies and techniques to improve learner engagement and outcomes in meaningful and effective ways. In addition, this book will be of interest to university professors who wish to find a comprehensive reader for teacher preparation courses that provide international perspectives of academics from around the world, including the UK, USA, Australia, Norway, Kazakhstan and Korea. This broad and international perspective also provides a starting point for discussing culture and the role it plays in educational and life outcomes and how educators can become culturally competent in designing, delivering and facilitating learning experiences across sectors and around the globe.

Author : Samuel Mitchell
Publisher : North York, Ont. : Captus Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Educational innovations
ISBN : CORNELL:31924060515255

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Innovation and Reform by Samuel Mitchell Pdf

Author : Colleen McLaughlin,Alan Ruby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108836401

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Implementing Educational Reform by Colleen McLaughlin,Alan Ruby Pdf

A collection and analysis of eight education reform case studies, capturing successes, failures and choices faced in implementation.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030418823

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Audacious Education Purposes by Fernando M. Reimers Pdf

This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal and Russia and yields original and important insights on the process of educational change. The analysis of these 21st century skills reforms shows that reformers followed approaches which are based on the five perspectives: cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political. Most reforms relied on institutional and political perspectives. They highlight the systemic nature of the process of educational change, and the need for alignment and coherence among the various elements of the system in order. They underscore the importance of addressing the interests of various stakeholders of the education system in obtaining the necessary impetus to initiate and sustain change. In contrast, as the book shows, the use of a cultural and psychological frame proved rarer, missing important opportunities to draw on systematic analysis of emerging demands for schools and on cognitive science to inform the changes in the organization of instruction. Drawing on a rich array of sources and evidence the book provides a careful account of how education reform works in practice.

Author : Fernando M. Reimers,Uche Amaechi,Alysha Banerji,Margaret Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Educational change
ISBN : 9783030939519

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Education to Build Back Better by Fernando M. Reimers,Uche Amaechi,Alysha Banerji,Margaret Wang Pdf

This open access book examines the implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for education systems and argues that major education reforms will be necessary, particularly in the Global South, to address the learning loss caused by the pandemic. To inform those reforms, knowledge about the implementation reforms in the Global South is necessary, and such knowledge is seriously lacking as the existing literature on the implementation of educational change focused principally in reforms in countries in the Global North. This book contributes to address this gap by examining five major education reforms in India, Egypt, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Senegal, and by presenting two novel approaches to climate change education using a bottoms up strategy of reform. The chapters examine the implementation process drawing on a theoretical model of educational change by Reimers (published in Educating Students to Improve the World by Springer in 2020). The book concludes discussing the implementation of such reforms as an evolutionary and learning process, characterized by four dimensions: the goals of the reform, the drivers of the reform, the reform strategy, and the mindsets about educational change which undergird the implementation strategy.

Author : Michael B. Katz
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807740667

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The Irony of Early School Reform by Michael B. Katz Pdf

First published in 1968, The Irony of Early School Reform quickly became essential reading for anyone interested in American education. One of the first books to survey the relationship between public educational systems and the rise of urbanization and industrialization,Irony was instrumental in mapping out the origins of school reform and locating the source of educational inequalities and bureaucracies in patterns established in the nineteenth century. This new and enhanced version of the classic text is now available for the legions of people who have asked for it. It includes an update by the author along with the same cohesive text and criticism contained in the original. Readers will appreciate that this edition: brings back into print a book that holds an important place in the field of educational history and in the modern literature of educational reform; assesses the impact of the original publication in light of writing about American history and education since its original publication and explains its continuing significance; shatters warm and comforting myths about the origins of public education; and shows how some of the most problematic features of public education have their origins in nineteenth century styles of educational reform.