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Knowledge Management for School Leaders: An Ecological Framework for Thinking Schools.
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In this paper, the authors illustrate how knowledge management can enable schools to examine the plethora of data they collect and how an ecological framework can be used to transform these data into meaningful information.Abstract:
Although there has been a great deal of recognition in the business world that information and knowledge management can be vital tools in organizations, it is only recently that educational administrators and teachers have begun to look at how they might use information systems to assist in creating effective learning environments. In the business research environment, the evolution from data to information and from information to knowledge plays a leading role in shaping how organizations develop strategies and plans for the future. Using examples from schools, this paper illustrates how knowledge management can enable schools to examine the plethora of data they collect and how an ecological framework can be used to transform these data into meaningful information.read more
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The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation
TL;DR: In this article, Nonaka and Takeuchi argue that Japanese firms are successful precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies, and they reveal how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge.
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Accountability Policies and Teacher Decision Making: Barriers to the Use of Data to Improve Practice.
TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal study of nine high schools nominated as leading practitioners of continuous improvement (CI) practices was conducted, and the authors used the key beliefs underlying continuous improvement-derived from educational applications of Demning's TQM models -and organizational learning to analyze teachers' responses to district expectations.
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Knowledge Management in Education: Defining the Landscape
Lisa A. Petrides,Thad R. Nodine +1 more
TL;DR: This monograph presents a set of emerging theories, along with current practices and recommendations, that focus on the effective management of knowledge in educational settings and offers recommendations for those interested in promoting the use of knowledge management practices in education.
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Data for School Improvement: Factors for Designing Effective Information Systems to Support Decision-Making in Schools
Andreas Breiter,Daniel Light +1 more
TL;DR: This work draws on the considerable body of business and organizational research on MIS and a recent educational case study in New York City to introduce a theoretical framework to describe the process from data to decision-making in schools.
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Organizational Culture and Leadership
TL;DR: A review of the book "Organizational Culture and Leadership" by Edgar H. Schein is given in this article, where the authors present a review of their approach to organizational culture and leadership.
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The Knowledge Creating Company
TL;DR: The Japanese companies, masters of manufacturing, have also been leaders in the creation, management, and use of knowledge-especially the tacit and often subjective insights, intuitions, and ideas of employees as discussed by the authors.
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The Tacit Dimension
TL;DR: The Tacit Dimension, originally published in 1967, argues that such tacit knowledge - tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments - is a crucial part of scientific knowledge.
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The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Ikujiro Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi +1 more
TL;DR: The Knowledge Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation as mentioned in this paper The Knowledge creating company is a knowledge-creating company that creates the dynamism of the Japanese economy.
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Organizational Culture and Leadership
TL;DR: In this article, the author analyzes the maturing research in the field of organization studies - the available ethnographic methods, participant observation, qualitative research, and clinical research, concluding that culture functions to solve an organization's basic problems of surviving in the external environment and integrating its internal processes to ensure its continued survival.
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