Fundamental Change [electronic resource] : International Handbook of Educational Change / edited by Michael Fullan.

Macro Change -- Beyond Bloom's Taxonomy: Rethinking Knowledge for the Knowledge Age -- Human Development in the Learning Society -- Educational Reform Networks: Changes in the Forms of Reform -- Educational Change in Japan: School Reforms -- National Strategies for Educational Reform: Lessons from the British Experience Since 1988 -- Quality in Schools: Developing a Model for School Improvement -- School Administration In Russia: Centralization Versus Decentralization -- Large Scale Strategies for School Change -- Accelerated Schools: A Decade of Evolution -- Systemic Reform in a Federal System: The National Schools Project -- Large-Scale Change: The Comer Perspective -- New Roles for Community Services in Educational Reform -- Professional Development for Reform -- Teacher Unions and Educational Reform -- Teacher Development and Educational Reform -- Norms and Politics of Equity-Minded Change: Researching the "Zone of Mediation" -- Restructuring Schools for Improving Teaching -- Teaching Standards: Foundations for Professional Development Reform.

The chapters in this volume are divided into three broad categories: (1) those dealing with macro educational change at the societal level (2) those relating to large scale initiatives based on particular reform strategies (3) those pertaining to fundamental transformations of professional development strategies, indeed to fundamental reform in the profession of teaching itself. There has been a growing dissatisfaction over the past two decades about the slow pace of educational reform. Whatever successes that have been obtained have been confined to individual schools what succeeded here and there. Missing was any sense that educational change could be accomplished on a large scale sustained basis. The chapters in this book attempt to push forward on the agenda of fundamental change. This volume (part of 4 volumes) is the third section in the International Handbook of Educational Change.