SUMMER SESSION, 1985
    Mondays and Wednesdays,
    1:00 - 4:20
    LOCATION: MPX 7610
    Course Outline
    EDUC
    496/845
    E Instructor Michael Fullan
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    Educational Change: School Based Implications
    Objectives
    To increase research knowledge, and insights about factors and processes related to
    successful and unsuccessful attempts at curriculum change in education.
    To understand the roles of key actors at the school level (principal, teachers, parents) at
    the district level (superintendents, consultants), and at provincial levels (government,
    universities).
    To identify strategies and plans for bringing about effective educational change including
    the role of plans, administrative leadership for change, in-service education, monitoring
    and evaluation.
    Topics
    Stages in the change process; roles of teachers, principals superintendents, consultants;
    planning; leadership, in-service education, evaluation.
    Requirements
    Intensive reading of textbook and other assigned material. Preparation of a project paper
    based on the examination and analysis, a particular innovation or change project of
    interest to the student. Topics to be selected in consultation with the instructor.
    TEXTBOOKS
    Fullan, Michael. The Meaning of Educational Change (Required)
    Joyce, Hersh, McKibbin. The Structure of School Improvement (Recommended)

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