In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions
to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a
widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for
each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more
modest in practice. This book examines innovations in several
developing countries, presenting case studies of technological,
curricular, and organizational innovations selected for their
magnitude in financial investment, scope, and duration. The case
studies explore the social and political contexts that shaped the
features of these innovations and what they accomplished over time
in terms of teacher cost reduction, status mobility, access to
education, and national unity. The experience of countries such as
Brazil, Lesotho, the Philippines, and Namibia, and the influence of
international agencies such as the World Bank are described and
analyzed against theories of social and organizational change. The
case studies themselves also serve as subjects for reflection on
the prevailing positivist approaches to research and knowledge. The
Politics of Educational Innovations should be of considerable
interest to students of educational change, wither in the academic
world or in the fields of government and international
cooperation.
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