Planning for Educational Change

Martin Wedell is Senior Lecturer and Head of International Education at the University of Leeds, UK.

"The author's first-hand experience and understanding of the field makes "Planning for Educational Change" a very practice-oriented but also theoretically well-informed handbook. It provides a wealth of background information, real-life case studies and "worked examples" concerned with showing, in very down-to-earth and detailed terms, how to bring about effective reform in a range of typical ELT situations. As such, it fills an important gap, and will be of considerable benefit to anyone involved in such innovations, and, indeed, in any aspect of educational change in any subject area, especially cross- culturally." Dr Alan Waters, Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University, November 2008

• Introduction; Section 1: Understanding Educational Change; 1. What is Educational Change?; 2. Initiating Educational Change; 3. The Implementation Stage; 4. Why Educational Changes Fail; Section 2: Case Studies; 5. A Sudden Need for English Teachers; 6. A Change in Teaching Approach; 7. Introducing a New Subject in Primary School; Section 3: Planning to Implement Educational Change: Beginning from the baseline; 8. Introducing ICT to Support Language Teaching in One Institution; 9. Introducing a New National Curriculum; 10. Planning the Development of a New Initial Teacher Education Curriculum; 11. Setting the Scene for Successful Change: Beginning at the beginning.