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  Changing Curriculum Means Changing Your Mind

 

As we enter the 21st century, this mental set still serves educators as a rationale for justifying curriculum decisions. Much like a clog chasing its tail, the level of adopted curriculum outcomes sets the intent of instruction and the focus of assessment. This cycle seals systems into a mindset that outcomes are significant because they arc easily and immediately measured, barring consideration of working for more long-range, enduring, and essential learnings.

Motivation and Personality.

The concept of motivation as a personality characteristic can describe a general tendency to strive for certain types of goals. Though motivation tends to remain constant across a variety of settings, it may be an alterable characteristic. In the same way, locus of control can be a relatively stable personality characteristic, though students may have an internal locus of control for some activities and an external locus of control for others. Other motives that may be viewed as personality characteristics include achievement, affiliation, power, and approval motivations. Students with "learning goals" sec the purpose of school as pining knowledge and competence, as opposed to those with "performance goals" who tend to value positive judgments and good grades. Learned helplessness is a perception that a person is doomed to failure, despite his or her actions. Achievement motivation and attributions can be altered by special programs designed for this purpose.

Before discussion of the subject of research paradigms in education, how the position needs to be a problem, research purposes, and characteristics of the data in the context of the selection paradigm of education research. Problem, research purposes, and characteristics of the data is important to note before choosing a particular research paradigm. Thus, the research paradigm used to explain the problem and achieving the goal of research in accordance with the characteristics of the data to be collected, and not vice versa. Therefore, the researchers about what the research problem will be solved through research, the goal is to be achieved, and how the characteristics of the data to be collected before the set is very important that the paradigm will be selected. Likely, the paradigm of research is a tool or scalpel cut that will be used by researchers to dissect "the forest" research. That means, the type and characteristics of "the forest" will lead researchers in selecting a tool or scalpel cut certain.

Executive leadership development programs which empower managers to generate entrepreneurial ideas and construct innovative systems are destined to enhance organizational performance. As studies conducted by field researchers reveal, business acumen and creative leadership rank highly as the most desirable executive qualities.

Providing managers with the wherewithal to develop, implement and follow-through on their entreprene urial ideas as well as their innovative systems should be the “prime directive” of any executive educational program.