Fundamental Change: International Handbook of Educational Change

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ANDY HARGREAVES Department of Teacher Education, Curriculum and Instruction Lynch School of Education, Boston College, MA, U.S.A. ANN LIEBERMAN Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, U.S.A. MICHAEL FULLAN Ontario Institute for Studies Education, University of Toronto, Canada DAVID HOPKINS Department for Education and Slalls, London, U.K. This set of four volumes on brings together evidence and insights on educational change issues from leading writers and researchers in the field from across the world. Many of these writers, whose chapters have been specially written for these books, have been investigating, helping initiate and implementing educational change, for most or all of their lengthy careers. Others are working on the cutting edge of theory and practice in educational change, taking the field in new or even more challenging directions. And some are more skeptical about the literature of educational change and the assumptions on which it rests. They help us to approach projects of understanding or initiating educational change more deeply, reflectively and realistically. Educational change and reform have rarely had so much prominence within public policy, in so many different places. Educational change is ubiquitous. It figures large in Presidential and Prime Ministerial speeches. It is at or near the top of many National policy agendas. Everywhere, educational change is not only a policy priority but also major public news. Yet action to bring about educational change usually exceeds people's understanding of how to do so effectively. Introduction....Pages 1-2 Front Matter....Pages 3-3 Beyond Bloom’s Taxonomy : Rethinking Knowledge for the Knowledge Age....Pages 5-22 Human Development in the Learning Society....Pages 23-39 Educational Reform Networks: Changes in the Forms of Reform....Pages 40-59 Educational Change in Japan: School Reforms....Pages 60-72 National Strategies for Educational Reform: Lessons from the British Experience Since 1988....Pages 73-97 Quality in Schools: Developing a Model for School Improvement....Pages 98-119 School Administration In Russia: Centralization Versus Decentralization....Pages 120-134 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Accelerated Schools: A Decade of Evolution....Pages 137-160 Systemic Reform in a Federal System: The National Schools Project....Pages 161-184 Large-Scale Change: The Comer Perspective....Pages 185-206 New Roles for Community Services in Educational Reform....Pages 207-222 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 Teacher Unions and Educational Reform....Pages 225-245 Teacher Development and Educational Reform....Pages 246-281 Norms and Politics of Equity-Minded Change: Researching the “Zone of Mediation”....Pages 282-305 Restructuring Schools for Improving Teaching....Pages 306-335 Teaching Standards: Foundations for Professional Development Reform....Pages 336-361