This book introduces the application of knowledge management (KM) theories, practices, and tools in school organization for sustainable development. Schools in Asia Pacific have long faced a variety of challenges in terms of sustainable development under the education reforms and curriculum reforms to meet the demands of a knowledge society. Schools are inevitably expected to develop human capital for the knowledge society within the competitive global economy, and to interact with its policy environment and know how to leverage pedagogical knowledge. The high speed of expansion change and expansion of knowledge have dramatically influence the development of flexibility of teacher and school works. The nature of teacher work becomes increasingly less routine, more analytical, and disruptive yet often come with a sense of urgency and need to be more collaborative. Teachers not only require data and information, but also knowledge and experience of individual, they also need to collaborative task execution, decision making and problem solving. Helping school leaders and teachers to manage their knowledge and become know how to cope with the change is important.

The first book applying knowledge management in school education Provides guidelines for schools to implement knowledge management Presents strategies that identify, select, organise, distill and package information to improve teacher professional competency and school education quality Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr Eric Cheng is a specialist in Lesson Study and Knowledge Management. He is currently an associate professor at the Education University of Hong Kong's Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Eric holds a Doctor of Education in Education Management from the University of Leicester. His publication covers Lesson Study and knowledge management in various national and international journals. Eric is the author of two academic books entitled Knowledge Management for School Education, and Successful Transposition of Lesson Study: A Knowledge Management Perspective. He has served as the principal investigator in more than 20 externally funded research and development projects. Ms Joanna Chan is a vice-principal of the Lutheran Secondary School. She is a very experienced science teacher holding a Bachelor degree of Science in Biology from the University of Hong Kong and a Master degree of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Joanna is a candidate for a Doctoral of Education from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on pedagogies for teaching metacognitive and critical thinking.

Inhalt

Challenges for Schools in a Knowledge Society.- Knowledge Management for School Development.- Managing Culture for Knowledge Management Implementation.- Cultivating Communities of Practice for Leveraging Knowledge.- Nurturing Teachers' Personal Knowledge Management Competencies.- Institutionalising a School Knowledge Management System.- A Knowledge Management Model for School Development.