ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents knowledge and ideas about innovation drawn from several disciplines and fields of study and suggests how these might be applied to educational innovations, in the hope that readers might draw from it what seems relevant to their own situation. It concerns planning and management of educational innovations. The book focuses on distinction and relationship between curriculum development and the planning and management of innovations. Curriculum development is an integral part of the wider process of the management of innovation. Major issues which will be considered are the selection of innovations, their introduction and maintenance, the human factor, the role of the head or principal, the nature of the setting in which innovation takes place and the evaluation of innovations. Schools as social institutions will tend to change more rapidly during periods of general social change.
