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Chapter 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1408-5.ch008
ABSTRACT
Even though the vital role of knowledge and information management in organizations has been rec-
ognized, education administrators have started to think about how they can use knowledge systems in
creating efective learning environments only in recent years. The efect of the use of data and knowledge
in present education systems through knowledge management will enable the transformation of schools.
Education leaders should be able to manage information-based knowledge management eforts. For
our schools to be able to constantly renovate themselves and, as a consequence of the environmental
changes, transfer new knowledge and technologies to students, reconstruction of schools in the direc-
tion of knowledge management approach is crucial. This study presents how knowledge management
benefts schools when applied in an ecological framework by practicing upon the business theories of
information management and knowledge management.
INTRODUCTION
Even though the vital role of knowledge and information management in organizations has been rec-
ognized, education administrators have started to think about how they can use knowledge systems in
creating effective learning environments only in recent years. In order to realize what’s expected from
educational institutions and improve the educational institutions of the knowledge age, knowledge
management approach is included in conducted studies (Memisoglu and Ozsarikamis, 2009). The trans-
formation from data to information, information to knowledge in organizations plays a principal role
in shaping how peoples in the organization develops strategies and plans for the future (Yilmaz, 2017).
Adaptation of knowledge management by schools which are the source of knowledge in today’s world
allows them reach one their main goals that is to guide change and improvement, instead of following the
constant progress in the background (Çelep and Çetin, 2003). Even though there are some studies on the
Knowledge Management for
Education Administrators
Ayça Kaya
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7510-7708
Adapazarı Özel Enka Okulları, Turkey