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Instructional innovation in the elementary school often is reported in educational literature as superficial and/or compromised. this paper presents curriculum installation guidelines and recommendations for consideration by educators responsible for effecting intended curriculum change. Based on intensive field experiences in more than 60 schools of diverse characteristics, and supported by survey responses of innovating administrators and teachers, the guidelines reveal actual implementation problems that impede and endanger curriculum change efforts. Educators who undertake local or regional curriculum change are encouraged to transform their theoretical models for change into concrete, replicable activities (work) and events that directly deal with the field problems that stimulated the guidelines. References are made to a series of curriculum installation projects that were progressively more successful because the guidelines were formulated and made operational in the field.
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L'innovation de l'instruction en classe élémentaire est souvent rapportée dans la documentation éducative comme superficielle et/ou compromise. Cette étude présente les grandes lignes pour l'installation de plans d'études et les recommandations à considérer par les éducateurs responsables pour réaliser les changements de programme projetés. Basées sur des expériences intensives conduites dans plus de 60 écoles de formations diverses et secondées par les résultats d'études d'administrateurs et de professeurs innovateurs, les grandes lignes révèlent des problèmes réels d'exécution qui entravent et mettent en danger les efforts de changement de plans d'études. Les éducateurs qui se chargent de changement de plans d'études local ou régional, sont encouragés à transformer leurs modèles théoriques du changement en activités concrètes et reproduisibles (travail) et en événements qui abordent directement les problèmes sur les lieux qui avaient stimulé les grandes lignes. L'étude fait mention d'une série de projets d'installation de plans d'études qui ont éprouvé du succès progressif grâce au fait que les grandes lignes étaient formulées et rendues opérantes sur le lieu-même.
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Mahan, J.M. Frank observations on innovation in elementary schools. Interchange 3, 144–160 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02137641
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02137641