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ERIC Number: EJ524705
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0729-4360
Valuing Teaching: A Strategy for Changing the Organisational Culture of an Academic Department.
Willcoxson, Lesley; Walker, Paul
Higher Education Research and Development, v14 n2 p269-78 1995
The organizational development strategies used in the Sydney University (Australia) physics department, designed to bring about a reassessment of the role and practice of teaching and to support the implementation of teaching reforms, are described. The roles of leadership, devolved responsibility, and consultation in effecting change in both teaching and departmental culture are also discussed. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Instruction, Departments, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Organizational Climate, Organizational Development, Physics
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia; University of Sydney (Australia)