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A mixed methods study of education researchers’ knowledge mobilization approaches 对教育研究人员知识动员方法的混合研究

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Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09517-w

Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Stephen MacGregor

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“Embracing the essence of student voice…then doing something with the data”: One district’s critical use of evidence "接受学生声音的本质......然后对数据采取行动"：一个地区对证据的批判性使用

IF 2.8 2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09515-y

Addison Duane, Quinn Hafen, Luca Morales, Tiffany M. Jones, Valerie B. Shapiro

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External facilitators’ practical work for school improvement: de-professionalising or developing improvement capacity? 外部促进者为学校改进所做的实际工作：去专业化还是发展改进能力？

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Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09514-z

Jaana Nehez, Marcia Håkansson Lindqvist

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How teachers’ student voice practices affect student engagement and achievement: exploring choice, receptivity, and responsiveness to student voice as moderators 教师的学生发言权实践如何影响学生的参与和成绩：探索作为调节因素的学生发言权的选择、接受度和响应度

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Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09513-0

Jerusha Conner, Dana L. Mitra, Samantha E. Holquist, Ashley Boat

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Challenges in sustaining professional learning communities focused on equity 维持注重公平的专业学习社区所面临的挑战

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Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09511-2

Joonkil Ahn, Osly J. Flores, Anjalé D. Welton, Donald G. Hackmann

{"title":"Challenges in sustaining professional learning communities focused on equity","authors":"Joonkil Ahn, Osly J. Flores, Anjalé D. Welton, Donald G. Hackmann","doi":"10.1007/s10833-024-09511-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-024-09511-2","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the benefits of improving teaching and learning that research evidences, professional learning communities (PLCs) can be challenging to sustain for a sufficient period of time to become deeply engrained within the school’s culture and accepted by teachers as organizational norms. As PLCs strive to achieve a system-level reform and promote educators’ reflective dialogues and shared experiences, they have strong potential to achieve positive changes in teacher perspectives and teaching practices focused on equity. Despite this potential, only a small number of studies have explored the potential of PLCs being used as vehicles to advance equity, and challenges educators can experience in translating PLCs’ collaborative culture into advancing equity are under-researched. Therefore, employing Hord’s (1997) attributes of PLCs as our conceptual framework, we conducted this study to understand how a middle school in the U.S. Midwest sustained its PLC to be deeply permeated in and accepted by the staff as a prevailing organizational culture. This study also aims to identify equity-related challenges educators experienced in the process. Data analysis identified school leaders’ support for staff sense-making of the PLC and the promotion of security and vulnerability as the essential mindset for shared practice and innovation. We also found that issues around educational equity relevant to educator race, English Learners, and inclusive practices for students with special needs were limited and indeed need further development. Implications for school leadership practice and future research are provided in the discussion.","PeriodicalId":47376,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational Change","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141722042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Culturally responsive-sustaining education and student engagement: a call to integrate two fields for educational change 顺应文化的可持续教育和学生参与：呼吁整合两个领域促进教育变革

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Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09510-3

Kristy Cooper Stein, Courtney Mauldin, Joanne E. Marciano, Tara Kintz

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Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems 地方学习景观：分散教育系统中教师和学校基于地方的专业学习概念化

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Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09508-x

Toby Greany, Tom Cowhitt, Andy Noyes, Cath Gripton, Georgina Hudson

{"title":"Local learning landscapes: conceptualising place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems","authors":"Toby Greany, Tom Cowhitt, Andy Noyes, Cath Gripton, Georgina Hudson","doi":"10.1007/s10833-024-09508-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-024-09508-x","url":null,"abstract":"This article sets out an original conceptual framework for place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems. High quality Continuing Professional Development and Learning by teachers is associated with improvements in children’s outcomes. Most research in this area focuses on evaluating formal professional development programmes provided by external, non-school organisations. However, in practice, much professional learning is informal and takes place ‘on the job’. Meanwhile, in many systems globally, school leaders have been granted increased autonomy, for example taking on responsibility for the recruitment and professional development of staff. In these contexts, traditional place-based providers of professional development, such as Local Authorities and school districts, have been rolled back, while school leaders have been encouraged to draw on a wider marketplace of provision. These developments might create space for agency and innovation, but also present risks in terms of coherence, quality, and equity. For these reasons, we argue that there is a need to conceptualise the ways in which formal and informal learning occurs across complex local learning landscapes. We describe the iterative process through which the conceptual framework was developed before setting out the framework itself and the bodies of research and theory which underpin it. We draw on our empirical research using the framework in England to illustrate its three main contributions: as a heuristic device, an analytical tool, and an example of methodological innovation. We conclude by highlighting key implications for educational stakeholders, arguing that strengthening coherence, quality and equity across local learning landscapes in decentralised school systems requires attention to system governance and design as well as leadership and locality dynamics.","PeriodicalId":47376,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational Change","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141552634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Layering and institutional change: framework plan revision in Norwegian early childhood education and care 分层和机构变革：挪威幼儿教育和保育框架计划的修订

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Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09512-1

Anne Homme, Kari Ludvigsen, Hilde Danielsen

{"title":"Layering and institutional change: framework plan revision in Norwegian early childhood education and care","authors":"Anne Homme, Kari Ludvigsen, Hilde Danielsen","doi":"10.1007/s10833-024-09512-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-024-09512-1","url":null,"abstract":"Central among a range of reforms and policy measures aimed at enhancing the quality and social cohesion of Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) services is the 2017 Framework Plan for Kindergartens. In this article, we investigate the policy formation process and how framework plan reform has been carried out by public and private stakeholders at different levels. The reform is explored as institutional layering, referring to theoretical contributions that stress the role of incremental development and gradual institutional change. We ask: What are the policies added, and to what extent do added policies instigate institutional change? This article relies on qualitative document analyses, semistructured interviews, and quantitative survey data. We find high legitimacy for the framework plan in the ECEC sector, and informants broadly regard it as a continuation of earlier versions of the plan. Our analysis further shows that the implementation of the 2017 framework plan reform cannot be viewed in isolation, as it interacts with other reforms, trends, and instruments in the sector. We argue that blending reform design features with existing values and practices adds layers to Norwegian ECEC, instigating change. The analysis points to the need for further research on how national educational reforms are implemented in complex settings and to investigate the relationships between policy design and measures and between policy outcomes and ambitions. The relationships between different measures can be unclear to local implementers. Thus, we stress the importance of considering how reform outcomes depend on intertwined reforms and varying local conditions regarding capacity, norms, and values.","PeriodicalId":47376,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational Change","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How can we understand and stimulate evidence-informed educational change? A scoping review from a systems perspective 我们如何理解和促进有实证依据的教育变革？从系统角度进行范围界定审查

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Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-06-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09506-z

K. Vanlommel, S. N. van den Boom-Muilenburg

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Education systems change: cultural beliefs and practices that support and inhibit deep learning in Vietnam 教育系统变革：支持和抑制越南深度学习的文化信仰与实践

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Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09505-0

Joan DeJaeghere, Vu Dao, Thi Nguyen

{"title":"Education systems change: cultural beliefs and practices that support and inhibit deep learning in Vietnam","authors":"Joan DeJaeghere, Vu Dao, Thi Nguyen","doi":"10.1007/s10833-024-09505-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-024-09505-0","url":null,"abstract":"Global education agendas and scholarly literature are increasingly focused on systems change in education, in part stemming from a concern around student learning. But there is less attention in the literature about cultural change, meaning the everyday narratives, norms, values, and purposes that get enacted and reshaped within education systems. This paper examines everyday cultural practices in schools and in the social arena that contribute to and inhibit efforts toward education system change in Vietnam. It examines the contested narratives, including values and purposes of schooling and goals for learning, that circulate among policymakers, principals, and teachers. The authors draw on data from their long-term engagement with the education system in Vietnam, as well as a mixed methods study of the education system over six years. We show the shared narratives as well as the contestations around learning, pointing to changes that are occurring in the Vietnamese education system. However, a key component of cultural change—a deliberative dialogue that can shift norms and practices—is insufficiently attended to amidst other technical and policy efforts.","PeriodicalId":47376,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Educational Change","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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