Solving Real-Life Problems of Practice and Education Leaders' School Improvement Mind-Set

Autor/inn/en	Mintrop, Rick; Zumpe, Elizabeth
Titel	Solving Real-Life Problems of Practice and Education Leaders' School Improvement Mind-Set
Quelle	In: American Journal of Education, 125 (2019) 3, S.295-344 (50 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0195-6744
Schlagwörter	Problem Solving; Educational Improvement; Instructional Leadership; Educational Practices; Educational Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Problemlösen; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsreform
Abstract	When educational leaders think about how to solve problems, we expect them to identify a problem, think about causes and a theory of action, implement changes, and reflect on effects. This straightforward sequence is actually quite challenging. Through writings and interviews collected over 2 years within a doctor of education program, this study examines leaders' problem solving in real-life organizational improvement projects. From data on nine cohort members' thinking, the study distills a set of heuristics frequently deployed: defining problems as the absence of preferred solutions, conceiving of change as filling an empty vessel, understanding learning as implementing, aiming at conventions, and seeing "rationality" in adopting "what works." (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01