Planning for Educational Change Putting people and their contexts first [Hardcover]

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, a locality or a region. Educational change scenarios, from change within a single institution to local implementation of a national change, are used to show how answers to these questions can help change planners to closely match their implementation processes to their local contextual realities.

Introduction

Section 1: Understanding Educational Change
1. What is Educational Change?
2. Initiating Educational Change
3. The Implementation Stage
4. Why Educational Changes Fail

Section 2: Case Studies5. A Sudden Need for English Teachers6. A Change in Teaching Approach7. Introducing a New Subject in Primary SchoolSection 3: Planning to Implement Educational Change: Beginning from the baseline8. Introducing ICT to Support Language Teaching in One Institution9. Introducing a New National Curriculum10. Planning the Development of a New Initial Teacher Education Curriculum11. Setting the Scene for Successful Change: Beginning at the beginning