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Winner - 2009 National Staff Development Council's Staff Development Book of the Year Award
Change Wars is the third book in the Leading Edge™ series. The Leading Edge series unites education authorities from around the globe and asks them to confront the important issues that affect teachers and administrators the issues that profoundly impact student success. The experts contributing to this anthology do not prescribe one method to transact change. They embrace the mission, trusting that teachers and administrators the true change leaders will venture to the Leading Edge to embrace the challenges and opportunities that will guarantee the success of their students.
In today's era of educational change where reforms proliferate, initiatives abound, legal responsibilities are constantly expanding, and both teachers and leaders complain constantly of overload, the challenge is no longer just how to implement particular changes, but how to choose between changes, prioritize them, and create coherence among all of them. This is a challenge for the teacher in the classroom, the principal in the office, and for policymakers in government. How do we do the right things well, not get distracted by the wrong things, involve and include everyone who is affected, keep the momentum and the impact going, and prevent burnout by ensuring the change agenda is manageable and coherent?
The 13 contributors to Change Wars tackle these difficult questions by offering their own theories-in-action of educational change the changes they want, why they want them, and how they believe they can be brought about and sustained so readers can reflect on change in their own situations and perhaps find areas of broad agreement. Change Wars provides a comprehensive view of the challenges of education reform from system, district, and classroom standpoints and examines the many perspectives of effective reform and implementation. Change Wars contains more theory than On Common Ground and Ahead of the Curve. The contributors are largely researchers and not practitioners. The majority of the contributors focus on system change from a broader perspective than the classroom level.
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Andy Hargreaves, Ph.D., is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Previously, he was the founder and co-director of the International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Until he moved to North America in 1987, Dr. Hargreaves taught primary school and lectured in several English universities, including Oxford. He has held visiting professorships and fellowships in England, Australia, Sweden, Spain, the United States, Hong Kong, and Japan. He was awarded the Canadian Education Association/Whitworth 2000 Award for outstanding contributions to educational research in Canada. His book Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity (2003) received outstanding writing awards from the American Educational Research Association and the American Library Association. Dr. Hargreaves initiated and coordinated the editing of the International Handbook of Educational Change (1998). His most recent books are Sustainable Leadership (2006) with Dean Fink and The Fourth Way (ASCD, 2009) with Dennis Shirley. He is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Educational Change. Dr. Hargreaves work has been translated extensively into more than a dozen languages. His current research interests include the emotions of teaching and leading and the sustainability of change and leadership in education, business, sports, and health.
Michael Fullan, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and special adviser on education to Dalton McGuinty, the Premier of Ontario. He served as dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto from 1988 to 2003, leading two major organizational transformations including a merger of two large schools of education. He is currently working as adviser-consultant on several major education reform initiatives around the world. Michael Fullan bases his work on the moral purpose of education as it is applied in schools and school systems to bring about major improvements. He has written several best sellers that have been translated into many languages. His latest books include The New Meaning of Educational Change (4th edition, 2007) and The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive (2008).
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- PublisherHawker Brownlow Education Pty Ltd
- ISBN 10 1742393195
- ISBN 13 9781742393193
- BindingPaperback
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