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A Knowledge Management Model for School Development

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This chapter introduces a normative knowledge management model to support strategic planning by bridging the knowledge gaps for school development. School strategic planning can help school leaders to tackle the impacts and change generated from the schools’ external environment. It articulates the relationship between knowledge management and strategic planning and addresses the implementation issues for applying knowledge management in schools.

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Acknowledgments

Section 7.1 is reproduced with permission from the author’s published paper entitled “An examination of the predictive relationships of self-evaluation capacity and staff competency on strategic planning in Hong Kong aided secondary schools” in Education Research for Policy and Practice, 10(3), 211–223.

Section 7.2 is reproduced with permission from the author’s published paper entitled “Applying knowledge management for school strategic planning” in KEDI Journal of Educational Policy, 10(2), 339–356.

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Cheng, E.C.K. (2015). A Knowledge Management Model for School Development. In: Knowledge Management for School Education. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-233-3_7

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