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标题：Change Forces: Probing the Depths of Educational Reform
作者：Ann S. Keim
期刊名称：School Administrator
印刷版ISSN：0036-6439
出版年度：1994
卷号：Nov 1994
出版社：American Association of School Administrators

Change Forces: Probing the Depths of Educational Reform

Ann S. Keim

The theme of Change Forces: Probing the Depths of Educational Reform is learning to live with change proactively and productively.

Written by Michael Fullan, dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto, the book discusses two reasons why educational reform is failing: (1) the problems are complex and intractable, and (2) the strategies used fail to focus on things that really will make a difference. He explains why existing institutions cannot lead change, especially in times of paradigm shifts. Systems don't change themselves; individual people change them.

The author identifies and describes eight basic lessons of the new paradigm of change. These alone are worth the price of the book. Among them are: the more complex the change, the less you can force it; change is non-linear; problems are inevitable and you can't learn without them.

(Change Forces: Probing the Depths of Educational Reform, by Michael Fullan, Falmer Press, 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, Pa., 19007, 1993, 162 pp. with index, $24.50 soft-cover)