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Getting Policy Done in Educational Practice: What Happens When Multiple Central Government Policies Meet Clusters of Organization Routines in Schools
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Waslander, Sietske; Hooge, Edith H.; Theisens, Henno C. – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
This paper develops a new, broader, and more realistic lens to study (lacking) linkages between government policy and school practices. Drawing on recent work in organization theory, we advance notions on cluster of organization routines and the logic of complementarities underlying organizational change. This lens allows looking at how schools do…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Organizational Change, Secondary Schools
Where Is the Gap between Internationalisation Strategic Planning and Its Implementation? A Study of 16 Dutch Universities' Internationalisation Plans
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de Haan, Helen Haijing – Tertiary Education and Management, 2014
A dominant concern with internationalisation through the past decades has been the process of strategic transformation of universities. While strategic management has been perceived as a necessary and useful approach in the construction of internationalisation, many criticisms have been levelled against the application of strategic management in…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Implementation, Educational Planning, Global Approach
The Diffusion Process of Patient Education in Dutch Community Pharmacy: An Exploration.
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Pronk, M. C. M.; Blom, A. Th. G.; Van Burg, A.; Jonkers, R. – Patient Education and Counseling, 2001
Identifies barriers and facilitators to the implementation of patient education in community pharmacies and classifies these barriers and facilitators into the diffusion stages of Rogers'"Innovations in Organizations" model. Discusses the implementation of patient education activities that require individual and organizational change in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Models, Organizational Change
Innovation in Schools: Some Dilemmas of Implementation.
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Smyth, Leo F.; van der Vegt, Rein – Educational Management and Administration, 1993
Based on case studies of a Dutch adult-education organization and an Irish residential center for mentally handicapped people, this article discusses some implementation dilemmas that occur when organizations face challenging innovations. Conflicting pressures for centralization and local autonomy in implementation activities and for unified and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Mental Disorders
Schools Implementing a Central Reform Policy: Findings from Two National Educational Contexts.
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van der Vegt, Rein; Vandenberghe, Roland – 1992
During the last decade in Belgium and the Netherlands, comprehensive reform of primary education emanated from central policy. In both countries the national authorities set up a program to encourage and facilitate the new primary school concept. This paper reports on 25 schools in the Netherlands and 52 in Belgium that acquired special funding…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Policy, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Differentiated Responses to a Central Renewal Policy: School Management of Implementation.
Knip, Hans; Van der Vegt, Rein – 1990
The Netherlands' New Basic School was implemented in the mid-1980s to increase individualized instruction and curriculum differentiation in the earliest grades and to improve schools' capacity to serve students with varying learning needs and ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Under the plan, preschools and primary schools were brought…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy