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Develop equity, excellence, and wellbeing across the whole system!
Our world needs a transformation to survive. We need a moral imperative and a system transformation to survive for the better. The Devil is in the Details shows how we can re-think the education system and its three levels of leadership-local, middle, and top-so that each level can contribute to dramatic transformation whether individually or collectively. The focus is on examining details to ensure correct actions are taken, rather than assuming large pronouncements will drive change. Readers will find: Detailed cases and analyses of successful systems
Ideas for how leaders at all levels can take steps to begin
Actions and strategies for addressing equity, excellence and wellbeing
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
PART I: SYSTEM CHANGE
Chapter 1: The Nature of the Beast
The March of Evolution
The Dramatic Toll of Rising Inequity
The Serious Deficiency of Current Policies
Conclusion
Chapter 2: The Emergence of System Solutions
The Limits of Complexity
The Phenomenology of Good System Change
Transition Time
Leadership From the Middle
Conclusion
PART II: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
Chapter 3: The School: The Leading Edge of Change
Living Locally
The New Moral Imperative
Equity
Excellence
Well-Being
How Does a School Improve in These Ways?
Conclusion
Chapter 4: The Middle: Fuel and Glue
Who Is "the Middle"?
Successful Districts: Still in the Minority
More System Change
Guidelines for the Middle
Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Macro: Direction and Liberation
Ontario, Canada; California, United States; Victoria, Australia: Good Start-Ups at Different Places in the Learning
Beware of (Seductive) Distractors
Layered, Connected Autonomy
Conclusion
PART III: THE NEW WORLD
Chapter 6: Where Do We Go From Here?
Details, Details, Details
System Change
The Global South and the Global North
A Necessary Convergence
Conclusion: As Human as You Get
References
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Michael Fullan, Order of Canada, is the former Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto. He is co-leader of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning global initiative. Michael served as Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Special Policy Adviser in Ontario from 2003-2013. He received the Order of Canada (OC) in December 2012 and holds five honorary doctorates from universities around the world. His ‘interim autobiography,’ Surreal Change, covers his pre-Covid-19 era to 2018. Michael and his colleagues are now working diligently on field-based comprehensive system change in several countries. Under the umbrella of what they call the ‘humanity paradigm’ —equitable-equal deep change that integrates local (school and community), middle (district/regional), and centre (policy) entities. Michael’s latest books are: Spirit Work and the Science of Collaboration (with Mark Edwards, 2022), The Principal 2.0 (2023), The Drivers (with Joanne Quinn, 2023), and The New Meaning of Educational Change, 6th Edition (2025).
For more information on books, articles, videos, podcasts please go to: www.michaelfullan.ca
