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    Enduring Themes in Educational Change
    Enduring Themes in Educational Change
    Enduring Themes in Educational Change
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    Enduring Themes in Educational Change

    By David A. Escobar Arcay

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    Potential and novice graduate students, researchers, educators, and reformers may find themselves bewildered and perplexed by the vast changes in public education. They may just want to briefly know the core concepts. They may also need to use the language in order to be able to articulate its major issues. Whatever the case, the work of authorities in the field of educational change facilitates the conceptual landscape that can enable one's entry into the fundamental concepts that sustain this flourishing field. Here is a close and descriptive reading of some of the foundational works of one of these authorities in the field of educational change (the Canadian scholar and theorist of educational change Michael Fullan) who has certainly helped many make sense of the complexity of the educational change process. David A. Escobar Arcay offers here a brief but substantive description of the multiple themes and issues located within a particular and limited time period of the corpus of this authority in the hopes of engaging in an introductory manner the exciting and ever-expanding and unfolding field of educational change. Read it and be equipped to engage in the ongoing and larger discussions about the change process and its core participants, theories, and issues.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateMar 16, 2017
    ISBN9781532609053
    Enduring Themes in Educational Change
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    David A. Escobar Arcay

    David A. Escobar Arcay earned his PhD at The Lynch School of Education at Boston College and a Master of Education at The Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Nova Southeastern University Abraham S. Fischler College of Education.

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      Copyright © 2017 David A. Escobar Arcay. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      paperback isbn: 978–1-5326–0904-6

      hardcover isbn: 978–1-5326–0906-0

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      Manufactured in the U.S.A. June 15, 2017

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Overview

      Chapter 1: Stakeholders

      Chapter 2: Educational Process

      Chapter 3: Dimensions

      Chapter 4: Assumptions

      Chapter 5: Moral Purpose

      Chapter 6: Relationships

      Chapter 7: Knowledge

      Chapter 8: Sustainability

      Chapter 9: Chaos/Complexity and Evolutionary Theories

      Chapter 10: Systems

      Chapter 11: Paradoxes

      Chapter 12: Coherence

      Chapter 13: Theory of Action

      Summary

      References

      Overview

      If you are a researcher, educator, or reformer, and are not fully aware of the speed and amount of educational change that is intended and tried in today’s public schools, then you will be fortunate and grateful to find many experts in the educational change process. However, you may find yourself bewildered by the voluminous publications (books and articles) and desire to have a quick read that will alert you to the core themes in the educational change literature. What if you can quickly learn the key operational concepts that undergird theories of educational change?

      This book facilitates this learning by summarizing and describing some of the educational change themes that run throughout the works of Canadian scholar and theorist of educational change: Michael Fullan. It is important to note that this work does not constitute a biography (or intellectual biography for that matter) of said scholar. This work simply represents a personal reflection of various themes and a humble and modest attempt to provide professional educators an entry into the vast field of educational change. It is also important to note that this work is not a critical analysis of this scholar’s works, but merely an exercise that is descriptive in nature. This book selects and examines these themes from his sixteen published (authored and coauthored) books from 1982 to 2008. It is a fact that this text may have serious limitations because of the restricted scope in years (1982 to 2008) of texts selected and the unquestioned and increasing evidence that this scholar’s positions in some of these themes have developed significantly. The reader is reminded again that this work constitutes a basic and immediate entry way into the field of educational change. The reader is also challenged and invited to read and engage this scholar’s works after 2008 to trace, underscore and denote changes (both continuities and discontinuities) in the predominant themes listed in this text which will surely may highlight and illuminate some of my shortcomings and weaknesses for which I, as the sole author, take full responsibility. The themes described in the present text consist of stakeholders in education (students, teachers, principals, parents and community,

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