Change Forces: Probing the Depths of Educational Reform (History of Civilization)
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 at how they become learning organizations.–Management LearningA provacative and stimulating book. I defy any reader not to be engaged. This is a challenging and optimistic book. Its readiblity will make it acceptable to a wide range of audiences.–Educational ManagementFullan signals that this book will seriously address divisive political and normative issues, eschewing the neutral approach to change that has plagued many otherwise excellent analyses of school reform the past decades.Changes Forces: The Sequeltakes on a herculean task:moving beyond a neutral analysis of educational change while using business literature that offers little or no normative or political insight...Nobody is more knowledgeable about school change than Michael Fullan.  Through his writing for practitioners and scholars, he has done a tremendous amount to build a wide understanding the technical and cultural dimensions of educational reform.Change Forces: The Sequel, contributes to that legacy by adding contextual and theoretical flesh....–Journal of Education for students placed at risk movingThis 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 how they become learning organizations.–Management Learning