Building the evidence base for macro-systemic change

or...creating the bookmark of the future
  • Jim Ridgway
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Part of the IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing book series (IFIPAICT, volume 58)

Abstract

The theme of Chile 2000 is ‘The bookmark of the school of the future’. This paper sets out ways to develop the content of the bookmarked sites. A global trend can be detected towards evidence-based policy and practice. There is a great deal of evidence on exciting ideas concerning the application of ICT in education, but rather little in the way of structured critique of this evidence. ICT faces two major challenges; first, the need to assemble existing evidence in a way that is accessible to users; second, to develop working methods that are appropriate in fields that are not only changing very rapidly, but which are also changing in radical ways. The challenge of creating the contents of the ‘bookmark of the school of the future’ in the face of macro-systemic change is the focus of this paper.

Keywords

Systems macro-systemic change assessment vision evidence based policy and practice the meta-generation. 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jim Ridgway
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  1. 1.School of EducationUniversity of DurhamDurhamEngland

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