Educators have already taken on board the idea that educational change and school reform are not as easy to accomplish as first expected. In this book, Michael Fullan, arguably one of the world's leading authors on the issue of educational change, explores why this continues to be the case, and builds on the lessons that he set out so clearly in the first two volumes of his trilogy on the subject. This book is concise, accessible, and the message contained is clearly written with a broad audience mind both for academics in education and general reader.

Knowledge of the processes of educational change is said to be the missing ingredient in attempts to bring about educational innovation and reform. Whether these efforts involve grass roots innovation or large-scale societal reform, failure to understand and act on existing knowledge of the change process has accounted for the widespread lack of success in making educational improvements. This volume analyzes what is known about successful or productive change processes, and identifies corresponding action strategies at the individual, school, local and state levels. Included in this book is...