Educational Restructuring and Change: Post-Communist Educational Transformation in Poland

Turbulence, Perturbance, and Educational Change

While scholarship on educational change has long accepted that disruptions to the status quo are an essential part of the change process, disruption has never been more central to planned change than it is in the current political context in the USA, where legislation has mandated school closure, reconstitution, and turnaround as required remedies for schools failing to produce annual student a...

Quality as Transformation: Educational Metamorphosis

Educational Change and Social Transition in Hungary

The study presents the change of the system of curriculum regulation in Hungary during the nineties with adouble focus. The presented case is put into the broader context of educational change with the aim to helpthe understanding of why and how reforms occur in education systems. It is also put into the broaderproblematic of transitions from non-democratic regimes to democracy and ...

Technology Adoption and Educational Change in Turkey

The purpose of this research was to examine technology adoption and the educational change process. This paper found eight factors essential to technology adoption in countries that are heavily centralized and strongly affected by external forces (globalism etc.). These factors are communication, expertise capacity, minimal bureaucracy, continuous research, individual change and organizational ...

Emerging Technologies, Ubiquitous Learning, and Educational Transformation

Emerging technologies are enabling ubiquitous learning. This can empower a structural change away from classrooms as the primary place of learning, the school day as the primary educational time, and the teacher as the primary source of information. Mobile devices can allow teachers to link to tutors, coaches, and mentors outside of school in a seamless web of support for each student. My colle...