Educational reform and teacher professionalism
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Curriculum Studies
- Vol. 21 (1) , 53-60
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0022027890210104
Abstract
Reforms have a tendency to stabilize a system and thus they serve to preserve [it]. But the very fact that reforms are possible indicates that the system has not yet exhausted its potential for development and, to that extent, the necessity of reform is a manifestation of the system's transience and its future dissolution and replacement with a new system. If we look at the future from a dynamic point of view, reforms transcend the system. (Gustafsson 1981: 52, my translation)This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Developing the Teaching Profession: Autonomy, Professional Code, Knowledge BaseAustralian Journal of Education, 1983
- Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled SystemsAdministrative Science Quarterly, 1976