Research for educational change

the educational development center: working for change,

introduction educational development centers (edcs) in the health sector act as a resource and a catalyst for educational change and therefore have a significant role to play in the professional development of health personnel. the world health organisation has actively supported the establishments of edcs by its member states because of the valuable contribution they can make to improving medi...

A research-based model for managing strategic educational change and innovation projects

Innovation and radical strategic change are closely related. They both introduce a high degree of uncertainty to an organisation. Recent research has identified that there are particular processes that are more effective at facilitating the management of such activities by enabling the uncertainties to be reduced. There are parallels in other sectors concerning the way innovation and change pro...

Turbulence, Perturbance, and Educational Change

While scholarship on educational change has long accepted that disruptions to the status quo are an essential part of the change process, disruption has never been more central to planned change than it is in the current political context in the USA, where legislation has mandated school closure, reconstitution, and turnaround as required remedies for schools failing to produce annual student a...

Challenges Facing Educational Research

American Educational Research Association

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