1. Educational Change:
Actors, Factors and Lessons Learned.
Some Reflections
from Azerbaijan
Ulviyya Mikayilova
Kiev,
October 4, 2014

2. Center for Innovations in Education
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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

3. 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

4. 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, institutionalizati
on)
• Leadership: leading and maintaining changes

5. 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

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Innovative Projects
Clarity
Complexity
Quality/Practicality
Need
Clarity
Complexity
Quality/Practicality
Ambitions