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Tabitha Coates; Diane Foucar-Szocki; Randell Snow – Educational Planning, 2024
In this article we share our learning experiences on the organizational design barriers we perceived to have encountered with scenario planning in higher education for program development. Our perceived barriers discussed include misalignment of culture and change intervention; constructing organizational reality and meaning making; knowledge…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Higher Education, Vignettes, Outcomes of Education
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Stubbs, Wendy – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a pedagogical approach for designing a coursework curriculum that aims to meet the growing need for skilled professionals that have competencies in both business and sustainability, and that understand the nexus between the two. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses a pedagogical approach…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Organizational Change, Sustainability, Educational Change
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Ross, Denise; Pinder, Glen; Coles-White, D'Jaris – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2015
Elementary charter schools increasingly serve students who are at-risk for reading challenges, giving them a critical role in establishing literacy for young children. This article examines the complexities of starting early childhood literacy programs in charter schools. Specifically, the first year of K-3 literacy programs in a new and a…
Descriptors: Barriers, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Influences
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Yang, Po; Lin, Xiao Ying – Chinese Education & Society, 2014
The purpose of this study is to analyze the recent development of Chinese vocational colleges from two perspectives: the adoption of employability as a new institutional mission and organizational changes in six areas. The analysis is based on a multiple-case study. The analytical frameworks are developed from sociological theory and…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Institutional Mission, Vocational Education, Vocational Schools
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Davis, Geraldine – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
Early years professionals wrote about changes in their settings as part of their MA studies, and reflected on the use of theories of leadership in implementing these changes. This article describes a documentary analysis of the scripts produced. Initially basing the study in current knowledge of leadership and change in Early Years settings, the…
Descriptors: Leadership, Early Childhood Education, Content Analysis, Documentaries
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Owens, Michael A. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2012
This case was developed for use in a course in educational leadership or organizational theory with a focus on change in educational organizations. In this case narrative, data are presented relating to a proposed restructuring of an educational leadership program. Students should analyze the narrative to look for information that helps them…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Schools of Education, Organizational Change, Online Courses
Rice, Erik – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2011
Traditionally, challenges such as how to sustain district reform, how to build a leadership pipeline, how to create an integrated project, or how to best intervene with struggling students would be resolved with a team of "experts" developing a solution in isolation of the stakeholders involved. By contrast, design thinking centers on the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Strategic Planning, Educational Change, Leadership
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2011
In the second article in a series marking 90 years of NIACE support for adult learning, the author charts the changing shape of adult education in the decades following the Second World War, and the Institute's emergence as a "major non-governmental force" in the development of adult education. In 1983 the NIAE changed its name to the…
Descriptors: Community Education, Continuing Education, Adult Learning, Vocational Education
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Rae, David; Gee, Simon; Moon, Robert – Industry and Higher Education, 2009
The "entrepreneurial university" is considered a desirable and achievable goal, but how do universities become entrepreneurial? The role of the enterprising academic in stimulating cultural change is often overlooked. This article presents as a case study the teaching team at the University of Derby, UK, who "acted as…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Organizational Change
Gonzalez Alonso, Gloria Amparo – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative within-case study explored how planned educational change in universities can be facilitated through academic professional development strategies. Thus this study attempted to shed some light on the dynamics of educational planned change in universities and their implications for academic professional development of faculty. The…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Change Strategies
Kapustka, Katherine M.; Damore, Sharon J. – School-University Partnerships, 2009
This research focuses on change processes. It considers how components of a change framework--namely, the concerns-based adoption model--can be used as diagnostic evaluation tools to examine how participants' attitudes and levels of participation affect the implementation of the professional development school model. This article demonstrates how…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Urban Universities, Adoption (Ideas), Networks
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Whale, W. Brock – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 1976
With increased campus interest in continuing education subject matter, departments are assuming roles which were previously the exclusive domain of extension departments. In examining this situation, the author proposes an organizational and functional model whereby both the university and adult student body may be best served. (Author/BP)
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Extension Education
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Madda, Christina L.; Halverson, Richard R.; Gomez, Louis M. – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: School districts are responsible for helping schools improve learning for students. However, many district initiatives conflict with each other or with existing instructional practices in schools. Recent research on urban school reform points to the value of program coherence in sustaining school change. Our paper addresses an…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Change, Alignment (Education)
Driver, Cyrus; And Others – 1995
The National Center for the Accelerated Schools Project at Stanford University has recognized that district-level change is necessary if changes at accelerated schools are to gain permanence and become widespread. The Center has therefore initiated a research and development project to design a set of models on which districts can reconstitute…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Change, Program Design
Rensenbrink, John – 1976
This report describes a study that examined the process of educational reform and sought to determine how and why internal changes occur in the evolution of an educational program. The author studied the progress of four educational reforms in the Brunswick-Freeport area of midcoast Maine, including the introduction of significant changes in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
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