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Appreciative Inquiry: Building on Strengths for Integrating Information Technology in Schools

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Appreciative inquiry is both a philosophy and a process for fostering individual and whole-system change by focusing on strengths and what is going well rather than on dwelling on problems, gaps, or discrepancies. It provides IT leaders with a helpful lens to engender conversations and a shared vision to consider what IT efforts might uniquely support teachers and students.

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  1. William & Mary School of Education, Williamsburg, VA, USA

    Megan Tschannen-Moran & Mark Hofer

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  1. Megan Tschannen-Moran
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Correspondence to Megan Tschannen-Moran .

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  1. University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Joke Voogt

  2. University of North Texas , Denton, Texas, USA

    Gerald Knezek

  3. University of North Texas , Denton, Texas, USA

    Rhonda Christensen

  4. University of Otago , Dunedin, New Zealand

    Kwok-Wing Lai

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  1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Sara Dexter

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Tschannen-Moran, M., Hofer, M. (2018). Appreciative Inquiry: Building on Strengths for Integrating Information Technology in Schools. In: Voogt, J., Knezek, G., Christensen, R., Lai, KW. (eds) Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education . Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53803-7_110-1

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