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ERIC Number: EJ517860
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Turning Systemic Thinking on Its Head.
Fullan, Michael G.
Phi Delta Kappan, v77 n6 p420-23 Feb 1996
Overload and fragmentation combine to reduce educators' motivation for working on reform. Since educational change is essentially nonlinear, existing school cultures and structures are antithetically opposed to systemic reform activities, including networking. The lesson of systemic reform is to adopt strategies that mobilize large numbers of people in new directions. (11 references) (MLH)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Workload, Misconceptions, Networks, Resistance to Change, School Culture, Systems Approach, Teacher Motivation
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Nonlinear Models; Systemic Change