Difficult contextos and turbulento stories as triggers for innovation

Autores/as

  • Mariana Altopiedi Universidad de Sevilla
  • Luis Carlos López Jiménez Universidad de Sevilla

Palabras clave:

organizational history, turbulent environments and educational change, educational innovation, sustainability of educational change

Resumen

This article debates a frequently sustained idea about educational innovation which is that it needs a very favorable environment to be initiated and, especially, to get sustainable. In contrast, our study –which is part of a wider research- puts in evidence that a difficult context and a turbulent history may often work as an excellent lever of change processes. That is the case of the schools analyzed in this paper.

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2010-04-01