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De Wet, Priscilla – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2011
As we search for a new paradigm in post-apartheid South Africa, the knowledge base and worldview of the KhoeSan first Indigenous peoples is largely missing. The South African government has established various mechanisms as agents for social change. Institutions of higher learning have implemented transformation programs. KhoeSan peoples, however,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Racial Segregation, Pilot Projects, Social Change
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McDonald, Morva A. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2010
Social justice teacher education programs aim to prepare teachers who are able to provide high-quality, equitable opportunities to learn to all students, who are able to advocate for the transformation of not only individual classrooms but whole schools and districts, and who are able to consider their work as being connected to broader social…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Justice, Methods Courses
James Irvine Foundation, 2009
As part of its work to advance the multiple pathways approach to high school education, the James Irvine Foundation engaged the Bridgespan Group to develop a framework for assessing the nature and needs of the fields in which nonprofits operate. These agents of change often struggle to understand how to focus their field-building investments and…
Descriptors: Social Change, Educational Change, Nonprofit Organizations, Evaluation Methods
Haynes, Kathy; Blomstedt, Robert – 1986
This paper reports on a: (1) review of recent literature on the principal's role in the implementation of educational reform, and (2) study of teacher perceptions of the role of the principal in the implementation of recent Texas reform legislation. Research on societal and organizational change shows that the inevitability of change should be a…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies