MANAGERIAL ACTIVITY TO OVERCOME ANTI-INNOVATION BARRIERS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The implementation of pedagogical innovations becomes a required condition to enhance the quality of the education and competitive potential of an educational institution at the market of educational service, and it requires qualified management of its innovation activity. However, pedagogical employees stand against innovations, and in scientific literature it is called an anti-innovation barrier.The purpose of the paper is to consider the issue of overcoming anti-innovation barriers as a component of managerial activity in educational institutions.The work is aimed at coping with psychological barriers in educational institutions that can be made in the following directions: the change of value orientation of educators; the correction of motivation of the members of the teachers’ staff; the creation of new exemplars of individual behavior of educators; the formation of readiness of the members of the teachers’ staff for innovation activity.Systematic monitoring of educators’ readiness to accept innovations, its step-by-step studying should precede the implementation of all the mentioned directions. The administration of an educational institution is to organize explanatory and educational work on a regular basis, to provide pedagogical employees with comprehensive information about the performance of the educational institutions where successful implementation of innovations has taken place. A keystone of a successful introduction of innovations is the creation of “an innovation climate” – an external environment that forms educators’ attitude to innovations, to attract those educators who do not accept innovations to the planning of the stages of their introduction. The organization of the measures directed towards the increase of the professional competence of those educators who are involved in the implementation of innovation activity is a vitally important component in the management that is aimed at overcoming anti-innovation barriers. The task of the administration of an educational institution is to create the conditions, which will motivate teachers to improve their professional skills and to study an advanced experience.
 Keywords: management of an educational institution; management of an innovation activity; innovation activity; anti-innovation barriers; innovation climate; implementation of innovations; value orientations; pedagogical activity.