Overview
- Analyses recent educational reforms in the US and Russia
- Investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations
- Shows how to make educational organizations and systems more innovation-friendly
Part of the book series: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STAIS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book investigates the interrelationship between educational reforms and pedagogical and technological innovations, as well as the implications of this relationship for the quality of human capital. By analyzing recent educational reforms in Russia and the US, the authors shed new light on how these reforms may help or hinder innovations, such as the introduction of computer technologies into classrooms, new methods of teacher evaluation, constructivist teaching methods, and governance in public schools.
Taking labor economics as a useful lens for conceptualizing the diffusion of innovation, in the first part of the book the authors analyze book how certain power arrangements can block educational innovations in schools. In the second part they examine recent educational reforms in the US and Russia. The final part presents a vision of the next generation of educational reforms, which may enable innovation diffusion, rather than hamper it.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mark Warford of State University of New York College at Buffalo is Chair of Modern and Classical Languages and a Research and Innovation Felllow for the SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence. His main areas of scholarship include: educational innovations, sociocultural theory, applied linguistics, and teacher development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reforms and Innovation in Education
Book Subtitle: Implications for the Quality of Human Capital
Editors: Alexander M. Sidorkin, Mark K. Warford
Series Title: Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60246-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60245-5Published: 13 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86816-5Published: 17 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60246-2Published: 05 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2570-1509
Series E-ISSN: 2570-1517
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 142
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: R & D/Technology Policy, International and Comparative Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy and Politics, Public Administration