Metamorphosis and the management of change

Smith, R.D.

doi:10.1111/1467-9752.12169

Metamorphosis and the management of change

Smith, R.D.

Authors

Professor Richard Smith r.d.smith@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor

Abstract

Talk of educational reform and of the importance of ‘the management of change’ in education and elsewhere is still in vogue. However it often seems concerned to persuade us that if we engage fully with change rather than resisting it we will find our lives more meaningful, thus omitting the important matter of the goal of the change in question. Change here is in any case invariably a euphemism for the impoverishment of education and the annihilation of its ideals, together with the deprofessionalisation of teachers and other educators. Recent writers about educational change tend to be less concerned with an ever-changing, labile world than with how to make the transition—and make others make the transition—from one stable condition of things to another. Different ways of thinking about change, drawing on different literature, might help us see beyond the ways in which we are currently being asked to respond to educational change and reform.

Citation

Smith, R. (2016). Metamorphosis and the management of change. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 50(1), 8-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12169

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Sep 17, 2015
Online Publication Date	Feb 23, 2016
Publication Date	Feb 23, 2016
Deposit Date	Sep 25, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Feb 23, 2018
Journal	Journal of Philosophy of Education
Print ISSN	0309-8249
Electronic ISSN	1467-9752
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	50
Issue	1
Pages	8-19
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12169

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