The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) has defined the ability to manage change as a professional competency for all higher education professionals. In order to gain an understanding of the predominant change culture, institutional preparedness to manage change, and their members' own experiences with…

Education for sustainable development (ESD) aims to empower future generations to address current global environmental threats, though it faces challenges to implementation, often linked to narrow perceptions of sustainability. To observe such changes in practice and draw their implications for ESD, we explore the effects of COVID-19 in…

China has undergone unprecedented changes since the Reform and Opening-up policy in 1978. Policy experimentation (PE) has been key in generating and catalysing reforms in the process. This study proposes a conceptual framework to describe the different pathways of PE-enabled reforms. Comparing two empirically informed case studies, this study…

The term "middle leader" in the context of English education has evolved into an overarching title to describe a leadership position for practitioners who have school wide responsibilities in addition to their classroom duties. Such responsibilities can consist of pastoral leadership; curriculum leadership; leadership of additional…

The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when America's classical colleges adapted to meet the needs of an emerging industrial economy. Today, as the world shifts to an increasingly interconnected knowledge economy, the intersecting forces of technological…

This is an edited transcript of the Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture, given by Ken Jones, at the request of the Socialist Education Association, in November 2020. The lecture situates Caroline's work in the context of the 'Long Revolution' of twentieth century Britain. The lecture discusses the meaning of that revolution for education; it charts the…

Teacher pay-for-performance policies have been introduced in many countries, including South Korea, in order to improve the quality of teacher workforces. However, such policies cannot be exactly replicated across countries. A policy transferred across borders is transformed within each new situation. Based on policy mobility and transformation…

Florence Rosenfeld Howe died on Saturday, September 12, 2020. She had created an indelible life of magnitude and consequence. In 1982, when Howe was 53 years old, she published an influential article in "Change," "Feminist Scholarship: The Extent of the Revolution." If the article now seems conventional, that is a sign of how…

In reaction to the murder of George Floyd this past summer, Marilee Bresciani Ludvik attended a university-wide teach-in designed to better equip us as a community to embody anti-racist behavior in and out of the classroom. It included first-person direct self-report narratives from two very successful African American female professors who shared…

This chapter summarizes major findings from the national evaluation of TAACCCT pertaining to systems and organizational changes made by community colleges. These results are integrated with other findings presented in this volume to highlight lessons learned about the implementation of TAACCCT and its legacy for long-term changes in the community…

Higher institutions face increasing pressures to transform existing strategic enrolment strategies to offset mounting internal and external influences within the educational marketplace. With organizations dramatically reconceptualizing the classroom and instructor-student mandated interaction, internal resistance has significantly impacted…

Educational leaders confront instances of inequity every day, whether they are aware of it or not. Many find themselves inadequately reacting to such issues due in part to traditional preparation programs that fail to interrogate the existence and impact of systems of oppression. Why is naming and tackling inequity not at the forefront of every…

This Problem of Practice study explored and synthesized the lived experiences of specialized project managers as they grappled with the challenges of aligning technical and people-centric change. For these individuals within a fast-growing organization in a complex and rapidly evolving higher-education marketplace change is mandatory and…

Starting with the notion of 'wresting control from the elders' as a defining feature of the imaginary of revolution, this part of the book examines how the school climate strikes (SCS) of 2019-2020 enacts this orientation, in being a youth activist movement attempting to draw attention to the ongoing climate apocalypse. This section examines data…

Systems change and systems level services have long been advocated as part of school psychology role expansion. However, it is unclear the extent to which the research has kept pace with the calls to increase systems change activities within school psychology practice. This article offers an examination of the research on systems change within the…