Project Description:
Organizational innovation is a difficult process. Most innovations fail because of the failure of intercultural communication. In this article research on teacher/student interaction is significantly applied in an educational innovation from activity theory and four-frame model perspectives. I am going to take my own working organization as an example, which is a branch of Xin Jinshan week-ends Chinese language school in Melbourne. The branch principle decides to carry out an educational innovation in order to improve students’ abilities in each level as well as to increase the students’ enrollment. As far as I am concerned, if I was the branch principle, I would outline the innovation plan that identifies, describes and justifies in both activity theory and four-frame model perspectives that will be used in the analysis this issue. I may also wish to break the overall issue into a number of sub-issues.
1. Highlighting the importance of student/teacher interaction in an educational innovation.
2. Understanding the difficulties of implementing the innovation in an educational organization with cross-cultural characteristics.
Monday, August 25, 2008
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2 comments:
You and Dan have some similarities
Chinese language
intercultural communication
teacher/student interaction
You mention an article, are you exploring an issue in a published document?
KT
Hi Jiani,
Your issue is quite unclear to me. However, i think this link can help you to analyze your topic about educational innovation by using the Activity theory. http://language.la.psu.edu/aplng596d/thorneinnov.html. Moreover, the social-cultural in Vygotsky seems useful for your assignment.
Good luck!
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