Insider motivated curriculum renewal

This article explores how change is effected within an organization. Factors critical to the overall curriculum innovation process are highlighted through an analysis of three change strategies: the power-coercive, the empirical-rational and the normative reeducative, and through a discussion of an example innovation, the introduction of communicative language teaching (CLT) in Asia. The paper concludes by emphasizing the importance of local-level participation in promoting curricular change and concretely illustrates the potential benefits of such participation through examples of renewal-focused program practices. By developing opportunities for target users to contribute directly to renewal, it is shown that the chances for sustaining an innovation are far greater than with a more top-down oriented approach to change