Managing Curricular Innovation

This text provides an overview of the theory and practice of instituting change in language education programmes. It presents a framework based on an analysis of five different language aid programmes and shows how the framework was applied to the management of curricular change in a US university. Introduction; 2 Some defining examples of innovations in second and foreign language teaching; 3 Issues and definitions. Part 2 A case study approach to understanding curricular innovation - the CATI project: 4 Issues in project design and implementation; 5 Issues in project management: developing an organizations capacity to sustain change; 6 Issues in project evaluation and maintenance: Evaluating the transformational capacity of the CATI project. Part 3 Some general considerations on educational innovation re-visited: 7 The lessons of the CATI project.

Contents: Part 1 Some general considerations on educational innovation: 1 Introduction; 2 Some defining examples of innovations in second and foreign language teaching; 3 Issues and definitions. Part 2 A case study approach to understanding curricular innovation - the CATI project: 4 Issues in project design and implementation; 5 Issues in project management: developing an organizations capacity to sustain change; 6 Issues in project evaluation and maintenance: Evaluating the transformational capacity of the CATI project. Part 3 Some general considerations on educational innovation re-visited: 7 The lessons of the CATI project.