NDLI: The challenge of change: Using activity theory to understand a cultural innovation

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Bourke, Roseanna McGee, Alyson
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	This article explains how an inservice teacher education organisation in New Zealand embarked on a cultural innovation to challenge and build bicultural pedagogies, policies and practices. To understand the process and the impact of a three-year cultural innovation both intended and unintended changes need to be explored. Using a framework of second generation cultural historical activity theory, the article examines the individual and institutional changes, exposing both tensions and learning. Key successful factors included establishing a clearly recognized purpose, widening individual and group involvement, and creating flexibility to build a strong platform to support the innovation. However, tensions were created when externally imposed factors such as changes in government policy and re-prioritization of funding were introduced. The external tensions challenged the internal organisational structures and stability, which in turn affected the cultural innovation and destabilised the change process.
Starting Page	217
Ending Page	233
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13892843
Journal	Journal of Educational Change
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731812
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-01-11
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Cultural innovation Inservice teacher educators Organisational change Cultural historical activity theory Administration, Organization and Leadership Educational Policy and Politics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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