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Building a Springboard: regionalization within the Microelectronics in Schools and Colleges Development Programme
Author(s) -
McMahon H F,
Anderson J S A
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.1980.tb00407.x
Subject(s) - political science , engineering management , sociology , pedagogy , management , engineering , public relations , economics
The Departments of Education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have indicated that the recently launched Development Programme in Microelectronics in Schools and Colleges is to be structured along lines ‘comparable’ to NDPCAL, the National Development Programme in Computer Assisted Learning (Department of Education and Science, 1979). This paper considers some of the possible consequences of this intention. Drawing upon the reports and evaluation studies of NDPCAL, their own personal experience within NDPCAL and the theories of innovation of Donald Schon, the authors identify ‘regionalization’ within the Microelectronics in Education Programme as the key to its long‐term success. Alternative approaches to the development of regional infrastructures for the support of the innovation are explored and a proposal is made for the establishment, within the new Programme, of ‘regionalization’ projects.