Educational Change: Actors, Factors and Lessons Learned.

Some Reflections from Azerbaijan

Ulviyya MikayilovaKiev,

October 4, 2014

Center for Innovations in Education

• Mission• Promote every child’s right to quality • education through social inclusion, • excellence in teaching, and active parent

involvement.• Registered in January 2005• Spin-off of OSI-Azerbaijan’s educational programs• www.cie.az

My Intention• There is no any specific strategy for human

development and/or educational change that can be applied mechanically in every country

• Any proposed strategy has to reflect history, culture, traditions, resources and political institutions available in the particular context/country

• Each country faces a unique set of issues, but also a unique set of opportunities

Educational Change: Actors and Factors

• Government: top to down reforming, lack of flexibility, not well tailored policy, no research

• Educators: recipients of reforms, no voice• External Agents of Change (innovations,

research, policy, institutionalization)• Leadership: leading and maintaining changes

Educational Change: Factors• Growing stratification: not all groups have equal access to

formal education, and even in cases where there is equal access, “there are enormous variations in the quality of education offered”.

• The rich have greater access than the poor.• The urban population has greater access than the rural.• Growing elitization of education: better education to better

offs• Social exclusion: Lost Potential• Socially excluded, “while numerically large, are likely to be

less articulate, unorganized and politically less influential”• Misallocation or not efficient use of resources

Innovative ProjectsClarity

ComplexityQuality/Practicality

1. Need

2. Clarity

3. Complexity

4. Quality/Practicality

5. Ambitions