| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Series |
Education innovation series, 2211-4874 |
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Springer education innovation book series.
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Intro; Series Editor's Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Innovations in Educational Change: Cultivating Ecologies for Schools; Structure and Outline; Part I: Innovation and Change from the Chronological View; Part II: Innovation and Change from the Systems View; Part III: Innovation and Change from the School View; Part IV: Innovation and Change from the Classroom and Learner's View; References; Contents; About Editors; Part I: Innovation and Change from the Chronological View; Chapter 1: Centralised-Decentralisation in Singapore Education Policymaking; 1.1 Context and Rationale |
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1.2 Literature Review1.2.1 School Autonomy; 1.2.2 A More Nuanced Understanding of the Benefits of School Autonomy; 1.2.3 School Autonomy and Centralisation in Singapore; 1.2.4 Centralised-Decentralisation; 1.3 Research Method; 1.3.1 Data Collection; 1.3.2 Data Analysis; 1.3.3 Trustworthiness of Research; 1.4 Findings; 1.4.1 Evidence of Centralised-Decentralisation; 1.4.2 Motivation for Formulating Educational Policies in a Centralised-Decentralisation Manner; 1.4.3 Guidance to the Implementation of Decentralisation; 1.4.4 The Fractal Nature of Centralised-Decentralisation |
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1.4.5 The Differentiated Nature of Centralised-Decentralisation1.4.6 A Delicate Balance Between Centralisation and Decentralisation; 1.4.7 Trust; 1.5 Discussion; 1.5.1 A Role for Everyone; 1.5.2 Do Teachers Really Want Autonomy?; 1.6 Implications for Practice; 1.6.1 Ecological Leadership; 1.6.2 The Professionalism of Teachers; 1.7 Conclusion; Appendix: Sample Interview Questions; References; Chapter 2: Transforming Education for All: Tower Hamlets and Urban District Education Improvement; 2.1 Tower Hamlets in Context; 2.2 Explaining Success; 2.2.1 Ambitious Leadership |
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2.2.2 Very Effective School Improvement2.2.3 High-Quality Teaching and Learning; 2.2.4 High Levels of Funding; 2.2.5 Integrated Services; 2.2.6 Community Development and Partnerships; 2.2.7 A Resilient Approach to External Government Policies and Pressure; 2.3 Conclusion; References; Part II: Innovation and Change from the Systems View; Chapter 3: Wide-Scale Implementation Through Capacity Building of Senior Leaders: The Case of Teaching Thinking in Israeli Schools; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Background Information; 3.2.1 Educational Context |
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3.2.2 "Pedagogical Horizon (PH)-Education for Thinking" Policy3.3 Methodology; 3.4 Description of Workshop; 3.4.1 General Information; 3.4.2 Description; 3.5 Characteristics of the Change Process; 3.5.1 A Blend of Tightness and Looseness; 3.5.2 Tailor the Change Process to Multiple, Specific Contexts; 3.5.3 The Medium Is the Message: Modelling the Culture of Thinking; 3.5.4 Capacity Building Across Multiple Levels to Increased Fidelity; 3.6 Participants' Feedback; 3.7 The Workshop as Part of an Ecological Network of Changes; 3.7.1 Interactions Between the Workshop and Various Components in the System |
| Summary |
This book offers an ecological perspective to understand the opportunities and complexities of spreading and sustaining educational innovations. It explores the imperatives underpinning educational reforms and identifies the role of schools in developing, disseminating, and sustaining changes in Singapores educational context. It also includes international case studies that examine the dialectical relationships between structure, people and culture and demonstrate that cultivating ecologies involves leveraging affordances and resources across the education system to create new contexts, synergies and capacities. Further, it argues that educational innovations and reforms also need to consider tacit knowledge and conditions of transfer, which may be ambiguous and challenging. Few books address the nuances and interactions of innovation and change across levels of the education ecology - from the micro (classroom), meso (organisation / school), exo (partners), macro (policy) and chrono (time scales) levels. The ecological perspective adopted in this book explores the dynamic tensions in order to understand the interplays of policy and school-level influences that contextualize school innovations. By presenting multiple voices and views, it allows impediments and affordances of innovation diffusion to be discussed holistically, which is an integral caveat for nurturing a sustainable ecology that enables innovations |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Educational innovations.
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Educational technology.
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Educational change -- Singapore
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Education -- Singapore
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Education
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Educational change
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Educational innovations
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Educational technology
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Singapore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hung, David, editor.
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Lee, Shu Shing, editor
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Toh, Yancy, editor
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Jamaludin, Azilawati, editor
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Wu, Longkai, editor
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| ISBN |
9811363307 |
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9789811363306 |
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