Educational innovation and university academics: the challenges of incorporating change into teaching and management practice

Abstract

The processes of educational and curricular innovation have been presented in recent decades within the Higher Education Institutions in a remarkable way by the emergence of new policies by the governments in charge, as well as by the various social movements that have promoted improvements in the processes of student learning. However, the accelerated work that has been done to incorporate change into education systems has left two issues unresolved, on the one hand, the careful and in-depth analysis of the concept of innovation and on the other, the way in which academics incorporate change into practice both in classroom and in academic management. The purpose of this research is to make progress in these two aspects, and to do so, it addresses innovation from the perspective of globalization and identifies academics as factors of change.