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Berg, Barbro; Ostergren, Bertil – Studies in Higher Education, 1979
Innovation processes in the Swedish Higher Education System are described and related to a general theory of innovation. Using the theories of Kurt Lewin, characteristics of higher education as a social system and factors which determine the nature of the forces towards a certain type of change are defined. (JMF)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Persico, Christine; Heaney, Thomas W. – 1986
The practice of interviewing individuals rather than groups has been based largely upon methodological concerns for preventing contamination of data. The assumptions that (1) the data provided by individuals can, in aggregate, yield social truth; (2) individuals are conscious of social phenomena; and (3) the whole of social reality is equal to the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Females, Group Behavior