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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Change in education"”.
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Appreciative Inquiry: A Path to Change in Education
<p>Appreciative Inquiry (AI) introduces a new approach to educational change. Most state and federal initiatives for educational change grow out of a deficit model of what is wrong with schools and what is needed to fix them. Implementation of new reforms has historically been mandated by …
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Using Professional Learning Communities to Build Teacher Leadership Capacity: Creating Sustainable Change in Education
<p>During the course of this study, I examine the effective uses of professional learning communities in relation to building leadership capacity among teachers. The literature reviewed illustrates and addresses the need for teachers to see themselves, not only as professionals, but as leaders. …
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Effects of facilitation training on principals' transformation leadership orientation
The delivery of a training program on facilitation skills using the Assisting Change in Education (ASCD) materials presented an opportunity to study the effects of the training on the transformational leadership orientation of school principals. This qualitative study investigated the effects of …
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The curriculum leadership role of middle level leaders in middle schools
This study investigates the work of middle level leaders within middle schools, mostspecifically in the area of curriculum leadership. It includes issues surrounding the fields of middle level leadership in education, curriculum leadership, and middle schooling. Adeliberate attempt was made to …
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Etuaptmumk: Two-Eyed Seeing, Indigenous Educator Lived Experience, and Speculative Futures for Education
This study explores the experiences of Indigenous educators in Ontario, focusing on futures of education and providing recommendations for educational institutions and policy. This research is important for the field of education because it creates space for Indigenous educator voices in the …
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How We Show Up Matters: Transformative Adult Social Emotional Learning to Build Equity-Centered Schools
<p>Transformative Social Emotional Learning (tSEL) expands traditional SEL by integrating equity and social justice to cultivate student development and as a framework for educator growth and systemic change in education (Jagers et al., 2019). Unlike traditional SEL, which primarily targets …
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The effects of administrative change on school environment
<p>Administrative change in education is inevitable. However, successful administrative change is not. Successful administrative change requires Boards of Education and the new leaders they create to think of the administrative change as a process not an isolated act. The newly created leader must …
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Pasidalytosios lyderystės kaip organizacinio pokyčio įgyvendinimas švietimo įstaigose /
… of distributed leadership has been proven in management theory and practice. The dynamics of change brings up the question which is raised in the dissertation, i.e. how distributed leadership has been or could be implemented in education institutions. The research is based on a social …
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Teacher empowerment as a strategy for educational change
One of the greatest challenges facing teachers in the new democratic South Africa has to do with understanding and facilitating change in education. The question of how teachers can be empowered at the school level was, therefore, a problem necessitating this research. The aim of the study was to …
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THE MUSEUM OF LIFE SCIENCE - TOWARDS A HOLISTIC SCIENCE EDUCATION
Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in dignity and the importance of the question' Tennessee Williams The premise of this thesis lies in the various emerging philosophies concerning science education in the 21 st century, where there is a paradigm shift from mechanistic 'textbook - …
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Agnes Nestor: Labor Leader, Politician, and Social Reformer--A Portrait of a Leader
<p>School leadership is about effecting change in education and promoting excellence in teaching and learning. School leaders, however, practice leadership in multiple arenas with diverse stakeholders. Students, local community members, faculty, staff, and each layer of government represent unique …
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The Effectiveness of Large Scale Transformational Change Across a School District
… characteristics of large-scale organizational change in one mid-sized school district in Alberta, Canada. The period of the case study was from 2007–2011 within a district that was showing signs of significant change in operations. A review of two public large sets of data, coupled with …
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Teachers who initiate curriculum innovations: Motivations and benefits
What explains teacher-initiated curriculum innovation? Sparse but consistent literature in theories of motivation, teacher career development, teacher identity, and change in education shows that teachers value complexity and the opportunity to challenge themselves. Teachers who innovate often were …
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An exploration of the role of the school secretary/administrator in the city of Dublin vocational education committee (CDVEC)
The objective of this study is to examine the role of the school secretary/administrator in CDVEC and to make recommendations that will improve the understanding of the role and performance for the benefit of all stakeholders. In completing the study the researcher consulted with stakeholder …
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A study to explore perceptions of Michigan public school superintendents regarding charter schools
… studied perceptions of public school superintendents in Michigan regarding charter schools. Superintendents in Genessee, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne Counties comprising 111 school districts, completed a two-part survey about charter schools that was developed by Ogden (1995) and …
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: a study of the effects of social and political change on primary schooling, 1878 – 2002
This study investigates the effects of social and political change on primary teaching in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study considers the literature relating to educational developments in post-communist countries in political and economic transition. From the literature key themes were developed …
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A Measure of Perceived Power in Influencing Change among Selected Education Participants in Alberta
The educational landscape in the province of Alberta is undergoing change. The government's agenda includes changes in funding, reducing the number of school jurisdictions and local school boards, the provincial appointment of superintendents, increasing school-based decision making and …
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Untersuchung des Konfliktpotentials zwischen akademisch ausgebildeten Pflegepersonen und ihren Kollegen im Arbeitsalltag in Österreich
The nurses‘education in Austria is being renewed and brought to a level, which is comparable to the international standards. So the trainees are able to stay in any European country for their studies. The parts of education, which are done in one European country are taken into consideration in any …
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