1st Edition

Change Forces Probing the Depths of Educational Reform

By Michael Fullan Copyright 1993
176 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Knowledge of the processes of educational change is said to be the missing ingredient in attempts to bring about educational innovation and reform. Whether these efforts involve grass roots innovation or large-scale societal reform, failure to understand and act on existing knowledge of the change process has accounted for the widespread lack of success in making educational improvements. This... Read more
Chapter 1 The Problem and the Potential of Educational Change; Chapter 2 Moral Purpose and Change Agentry; Chapter 3 The Complexity of the Change Process; Chapter 4 The School as a Learning Organization; Chapter 5 The Learning Organization and its Environment; Chapter 6 Teacher Education: Society's Missed Opportunity; Chapter 7 The Individual and the Learning Society;

Biography

Michael Fullan

'This book is excellent. It says all the things I want teachers to hear and act upon about managing their own learning, about balancing life and work, and about how schools need to invest in teacher learning and look to how they become organisations.' - Management Learning