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Visit for Prof. James P. Spillane, Northwestern University, USA Prof. James P. Spillane is one of the world’s preeminent thinkers in the area of instructional improvement in schools. He is the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He is also professor of Human Development and Social Policy, professor of Learning Sciences, professor (by courtesy) of Management and Organizations, and faculty associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research and .Senior Research fellow of APCLC, EdUHK. During Prof Spillane’s visit, he provided consultation EdUHK faculty and post-graduate students who are interested in instructional improvement in schools and conduct the APCLC Leaders’ Forum in 2018. The Forum examined the social side of school improvement focusing on how schools and school systems can work to build social capital among their staff. Based on his recent research, Prof. Spillane examined how school systems design educational infrastructures to shape how teachers and school leaders interact about teaching and learning. He showed that these interactions are important to building social capital in schools and that this social capital in turn contributes to the development of new knowledge about teaching and learning that is essential for improving instruction. The Forum examined a) the components of educational infrastructure and how these components work to influence the development of social capital in schools; b) the nature of design thinking that is essential for building educational infrastructures; c) the dilemmas involved in implementing educational infrastructures that work. |
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