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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825113703321

Autore

Wedell Martin

Titolo

Planning for educational change : putting people and their contexts first / / Martin Wedell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009

ISBN

1-282-87683-X

9786612876837

1-4411-9270-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

371.2/070941

Soggetti

Educational change - Great Britain

Educational planning - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Understanding educational change -- What is educational change? -- Initiating educational change -- The implementation stage -- Why educational changes fail -- Case studies -- A sudden need for English teachers -- A change in teaching approach -- Introducing a new subject in primary school -- Planning to implement educational change : beginning at the beginning -- Introducing ICT to support language teaching in one institution -- Introducing a new national curriculum -- Planning the development of a new initial teacher education curriculum -- Setting the scene for successful change : beginning at the beginning.

Sommario/riassunto

This book highlights the current ideas about the what, why and how of educational change and what these suggest about the essential issues that change policy makers and planners need to consider. It analyses international case studies of change initiatives to illustrate how the change process can be affected when such issues are insufficiently acknowledged or ignored. Finally the book introduces a number of key questions for educational change practitioners to consider when they find themselves responsible for the planning and/or implementation and/or monitoring of changes within an institution