ERIC Number: EJ1452493
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Publication Date: 2024
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Constantly in Flux: Agile Planning in Holistic Educational Development Centers
To Improve the Academy, v43 n2 Article 5 p134-160 2024
Holistic educational development supports multiple, intersected facets of the faculty career to include teaching and learning, research and scholarship, leadership, career planning, wellness, and more. This constructivist qualitative study explores the landscape of 12 holistic educational development centers, with focus on how their leaders engage their centers and units in strategic and operational planning. The moniker "constantly in flux" enveloped the results, pointing to agile, leaderful processes that blurred the boundaries between short- and long-term planning efforts. Core themes were centering the faculty voice, "leveraging disciplinary identity," "trying methodologies on for size," and "adapting agilely." Disrupting commonly held stereotypes about strategic planning processes, directors illuminated the centrality of characteristics such as nimbleness, curiosity, transparency, experimentation, creativity, and collaboration. Study results point to opportunities for sharing, merging, and dissemination of planning frameworks across the holistic educational development network.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Administrator Role, College Faculty, Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Strategic Planning, Educational Planning, Institutional Administration, Research and Development, Instructional Development, Change Strategies, Creative Thinking, Teacher Collaboration
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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