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Sunet Grobler; Ann-Kathrin Dittrich – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2024
Purpose: The explanatory study aimed to understand the global perspective of quality education and describe transformative strategies that empower teacher educators and equip the education system and future teachers to act as change agents by fostering learning processes that support students towards a sustainable future.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Objectives
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Hübner, Nicolas; Savage, Corey; Gräsel, Cornelia; Wacker, Albrecht – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
Prior research suggests that teachers' positive perceptions of a reform are key when it comes to its successful implementation. The importance of teachers as enactors of change efforts results from their close tie to what is happening in the classroom. This suggests that without persuaded change agents, innovations are unlikely to be implemented…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Waterkamp, Dietmar – European Education, 2010
The article tries to answer two questions: Has the education system of the GDR disappeared without a trace? What role could academics in the field of education from the GDR play after the state of the GDR was dissolved? The policies of the East German states are looked at with respect to the heritage of the GDR education system, and attention is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education, Systems Approach, Educational History
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Oberhuemer, Pamela; Colberg-Schrader, Hedi – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1999
Explores role of early-childhood practitioners against background of shifts in social context and sociopolitical climate of early-childhood education and care in Germany. Maintains that practitioners are links in the process of repositioning early-childhood centers in quality debate. Discusses need for newly defined role combining family-centered…
Descriptors: Caregiver Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Child Caregivers
1996
This document contains two papers from a symposium on human resource development (HRD) in Europe moderated by Wim Nijhof at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development. "HRD Roles in Germany" (Linda E. Odenthal, Wim J. Nijhof) reports on a German study based on a study of the job profiles of HRD practitioners in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs