EDUCATION MANAGEMENT AND THE IMPACT OF INNOVATION
Lykopoulou Zacharoula
Abstract
This study concerns higher education in Greece, as applied today and in the forthcoming years and its aim is ternary; firstly, the study on the implementation of international innovation indicators in education, secondly the use of innovative teaching practices and finally the relationship between different organizations and its impact on innovative educational practices. The primary research contacted with the use of a questionnaire on a sample of 471 teachers all over Greece. The findings among others show that the higher the level of innovation regarding educational services, the higher also is the level of innovation on educational processes. Moreover, the higher the level of innovation regarding educational services, the higher also is the level of innovation on business organization, and the higher the level of innovation regarding educational processes, the higher also is the level of innovation on business organization. The importance of this work lies in its contribution to the description and definition of the concept, characteristics and operation of organizational innovation in the context of education, as well as the possibility of its use by the supervisors and teachers of the specific school level for better understanding and management of the culture of each school unit.
Keywords:
Innovation, Management educational services, Educational process, Innovative practices
JEL Codes: I20, M10
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To cite this article: ZACHAROULA, L., (2020). Education management and the impact of innovation. Entrepreneurship, 8 (2), 183-196 DOI: 10.37708/ep.swu.v8i2.15
