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14.016 - Catalyzing a Social Structure for Educational Improvement: Initiating Networked Improvement Communities

Thu, April 16, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Swissotel, Floor: Event Centre Second Level, Vevey 4

Session Type: Symposium

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A burgeoning set of educational organizations form networks each year that aim to foster coordinated collaborative work. While inter-organizational collaboration is lauded as a productive mechanism to bring diverse human and social resources to bear on complex problems of practice, there is a limited body of educational research that has examined the process of network initiation and development. Our symposium aims to accelerate the creation of a theoretical infrastructure that might foster the development of a coherent research agenda focused on productive inter-organizational collaboration in education. We present an initial conceptual framework for describing the process of network formation and development, and interrogate and elaborate the framework through presentation of four cases of network initiation. [Division A – Section 3A]

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