Full Description
The text explores the concept of innovation, and analyse and compare different dimensions of innovation found in the various case studies; the transfer of innovation and the mechanisms of change; on an innovative online case study database on education innovations that has been designed to be used by education practitioners to support organizational leadership, international collaboration and reflective practice in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) eEducation Leadership initiative; on a project aimed to support the establishment of communities of practice for education practitioners facilitated through an extendable online database that can be used to contribute and share case studies of their own ICT-supported pedagogical innovations. It discusses roles of the teacher and the anticipated changes to the education profession at a system level, in the coming decade on the basis of emerging changes observed in the case studies, and leadership issues at the school level. The book analyses change mechanisms for different kinds of innovation and how different contextual and cultural factors interact to bring about the changes observed.
Contents
Part I Introduction and Research Methods.- Ch 1 Introduction - context and purpose of the book.- Ch 2 Research methods.- Part II Classroom Level Analysis.- Innovations and dimensions of change.- Pedagogical practices and innovations.- Innovating change at the classroom level.- Part III School Level Analysis and Beyond.- Innovating change at the school level.- Interplay between school level and classroom level factors.- Socio-cultural dimensions of educational change: cross-regional comparisons.- Part IV Nurturing Leadership and Establishing Learning Organizations.- Changing roles in changing times: network of learning organizations for leadership development.- Research into practice: an online case study database for leadership and profession development.- Working with the SITES database of case studies.- Part V: Conclusion.- Thinking beyond technology.- Bibliography.
