Overview
- Introduces an ecological perspective to understand the opportunities and complexities of disseminating and sustaining educational innovations
- Explores the dynamic tensions and interplays of policy and school-level influences that contextualize school innovations
- Includes case studies showing that cultivating ecologies involves leveraging affordances and resources across the education system to create new contexts, synergies and capacities for innovation and change
Part of the book series: Education Innovation Series (EDIN)
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Innovation and Change from the Chronological View
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Innovation and Change from the Systems View
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Innovation and Change from the School View
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Innovation and Change from the Classroom and Learner’s View
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yancy Toh was a Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP), Office of Education Research (OER). Her research interests include leadership studies, school reforms, innovation diffusion, complex systems, and seamless learning. She is particularly interested in examining the systemic influences that impinge on a school’s capacity to sustain technology-enabled pedagogical innovations for student-centred learning.
Azilawati Jamaludin is an Assistant Professor at the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Academic Group, National Institute of Education. Her research interests include progressive pedagogies, reform pedagogies, institutional innovations, gamification, game-based interactivity, immersive environments, argumentative knowledge construction, trans-contextual learning, embodiment, embodied knowing, embodied subjectivities, trajectories of becoming, and construction of self.
Longkai Wu is a Research Scientist at the NIE, Singapore. His current research focuses on the design and implementation of technology-enhanced learning activities in classroomsthat help students develop deeper understanding.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovations in Educational Change
Book Subtitle: Cultivating Ecologies for Schools
Editors: David Hung, Shu-Shing Lee, Yancy Toh, Azilawati Jamaludin, Longkai Wu
Series Title: Education Innovation Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6330-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6328-3Published: 20 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6330-6Published: 07 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-4874
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4882
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 295
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations