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Roberts, Darbi – New Directions for Higher Education, 2016
This chapter examines the underlying motivations behind why institutions and organizations decide to apply particular policies and practices. By applying a lens of five diffusion models--learning, imitation, competition, normative, and coercion--to understand these motivations, decision makers and implementers will make better choices for…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, School Policy, Educational Practices, Models