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Leading Complex Educational Change Via National Participative Reforms? A Case of Finnish Core Curriculum Reform Leadership 通过国家参与式改革引领复杂的教育变革？芬兰核心课程改革领导力案例

IF 2.8 2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09502-3

Sanna-Mari Salonen-Hakomäki, Tiina Soini, Janne Pietarinen, Kirsi Pyhältö

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The importance of care in post-COVID education 关爱在后 COVID 教育中的重要性

IF 2.8 2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-024-09504-1

Holly Hungerford-Kresser, Molly Wiant Cummins, Carla Amaro-Jiménez

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Understanding initiators’ problem framing in the initiation of a networked improvement community 了解网络改进社区启动过程中发起者的问题框架

IF 2.8 2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-02-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-023-09501-w

Chad R. Lochmiller, Jennifer R. Karnopp

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School improvement at the next level of work: the struggle for collective agency in a school facing adversity 在下一个工作层面改进学校工作：在面临逆境的学校中争取集体代理权

IF 2.8 2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-023-09500-x

Elizabeth Zumpe

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Examining boundaries in a large-scale educational research-practice partnership 审查大规模教育研究与实践伙伴关系的界限

IF 2.8 2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-023-09498-2

Simon Sjölund, Jannika Lindvall

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Educators, epistemic reflexivity and post-truth conditions 教育工作者、认识论反思性和后真相条件

IF 2.8 2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-023-09499-1

Christopher T. McCaw, Mary Ryan, Jo Lunn Brownlee

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Can Korea have academic achievement plus well-being? The case of Hyukshin schools 韩国能否实现学业成绩加福利？兵库县学校的案例

IF 2.8 2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-023-09497-3

Stanton Wortham, Clara Shim, Deoksoon Kim, Dennis Shirley

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Teachers’ perceived opportunity to contribute to school culture transformation 教师对促进学校文化转型的感知机会

2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-023-09496-4

Hanna Reinius, Kai Hakkarainen, Kalle Juuti, Tiina Korhonen

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Resituating place within learning in schools as COVID-19 response 作为COVID-19应对措施，在学校学习中恢复位置

2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2023-10-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-023-09495-5

Jasmine Alvarado

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Bridging gaps: a systematic literature review of brokerage in educational change 弥合差距:教育变革中经纪的系统文献综述

2区教育学

Journal of Educational Change Pub Date : 2023-10-07 DOI: 10.1007/s10833-023-09493-7

Beat Rechsteiner, Eva Kyndt, Miriam Compagnoni, Andrea Wullschleger, Katharina Maag Merki

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