Re: change

Wendy Crebbin ( (no email) )
Sat, 6 Apr 1996 12:38:01 GMT+1000

Dear Dwight

you wrote -
>
> My basic philosophy of change is contained in a personal statement
> I made to my prof. "If I knew how to change, I would." This
> statement reveals a basic assumption and conclusion that I have of
> change.....Change is a product of knowledge (If I KNEW) and of
> will power (I WOULD).

I hope that this does not make things more confusing but in my
research on change in teaching I have found that it is not only a
knowledge of HOW to change but having a knowledge of an alternative
position, possibility, idea, strategy, to change TO.

My premise being that if people do not know of/recognise somewhere
else to move to (at least in their heads), as well as the desire to
move - i.e. that the new place might be in some way better, not only
can't they change - but why should they?

Wendy Crebbin
School of Education
University of Ballarat
Victoria, Australia

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