Guiding Change in Special Education: How to Help Schools With New Ideas and Practices

This practical, step-by-step guide illustrates and describes the seven stages of school change and provides explanations and advice for incorporating each stage into your change process.

Education & Teaching

Havelock, Ronald G.

Hamilton, James L.

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

The change agent's guide to innovation in education

Educational Technology Publications

The Change Agent's Guide

Computers & Technology

Zlotolow, Steve

Software

Educational Technology Pubns

Training for Change Agents: A Guide to the Design of Training Programs in Education and Other Fields

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Inst for Social Research the Univ

In this positive yet realistic appraisal of the human condition, social psychologist Ronald G. Havelock examines "the forward function," a cluster of six forces that has driven human progress from the Stone Age to the present. The author explains that the key to humanity’s past and future success is our ability to pass on what has been learned from one generation to the next, resulting in an ever larger and more widely shared knowledge platform. This has been especially evident in the last two hundred years, when the scientific revolution has produced an explosive growth of knowledge building and the application of that knowledge to human needs. Today, the most exciting and hopeful development is that the transfer of knowledge is increasingly not just from generation to generation but within generations and across cultures. And it extends from the rich to the middle class and even to the poor. The primary consequence of knowledge expansion is thus the empowerment of those who can understand and use it and a better life for more and more people. The author argues that, despite periodic setbacks, progress is actually accelerating on many dimensions of human existence. In his view, fears for the human future are wildly exaggerated and overlook both the knowledge resources at hand to solve problems and the ingenuity of succeeding generations in using those resources for both individual and planetary well-being. Grounded in a wealth of solid research, this optimistic outlook on human destiny offers a realistic hope that we human beings are fully capable of solving even our most challenging problems.

Acceleration: The Forces Driving Human Progress

Sociology

Prometheus

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