A Study On Michael Fullan's Thought Of Educational Reform

Michael Fullan is a best educationist in Canada. He has specialized in researching on educational reform for many years. As a result, he has got brilliant achievements and attained a good academic prestige in the North America, even all over the world. Thus, he has been considered an international authority on that. Many of his writings have caused great attention and good reputation, such as the new meaning of educational change, leading in a culture of change, and Change forces, and so on.Firstly, the paper commented on the complexity of Michael Fullan's views on the educational reformation, after summarizing the above mentioned works. Michael Fullan unscrambled the education reform's failing past, the full quest ional existing, and itself complexity according to the Complexity theory. In simple words, it is a nonlinear and moving course, whose ending is neutral. With the development of further probing, Fullan expounded that its initiation, implement, and continuing development are all complicated.Secondly, the paper analyzed the change forces of his views on the educational reformation. Michael Fullan believes that the learning person, the learning organization, the learning society should become the change forces, especially a teacher who should study all the time. Simultaneously, obstruction is also a necessary part. Because it can make the educational reforms succeed in an incompatible environment because of the reciprocity between two different factors. What is more, He stressed that an innovation succeed in growing up when it is put into a good cultural surroundings.Thirdly, the paper made a comment on the changing of Teacher education and Teachers' specialization of Michael Fullan's views on the educational reformation. He thought learning is a changing course. We need lots of excellent teachers and in order to educate the men who can learn by themselves, enjoy living and deal with what happen to them in the modern society. But we failed to do that. So, they are becoming more and more important than anything else.Finally, the paper elaborated the important message that we can learn from Michael Fullan's thought of educational reform. It includes: The theory of educating should keep up with the theory of reforming. Protecting cultural diversity is very important in a learning organization. Teaching is a continuing learning course in teacher's life. Teacher education and elementary an, junior high school should become a strong union. Encouraging students to join in the innovation is necessary. And so on.