Education: The Captive Profession: Theory, Practice, and Prospects for Achieving Improvements in Educational Outcomes Book

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	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction and overview	1
2	Identification of education's problems: system-level	19
3	Problem identification in elementary and secondary schools: mission, organization, administration and personnel	33
4	Problem identification in teacher education	59
5	The flaws of educational reform	79
6	Systems theory and education	113
7	Introduction to change	135
8	Overview of educational change	151
9	Toward a framework for a continuing educational improvement process	183
10	Governance and coordination of public and teacher education: third order changes	211
11	A conceptual framework for second-order change of education, part one: mission and knowledge base	239
12	A conceptual framework for education, part two: organization, program design, and resource allocation	267
13	Teacher preparation programs: second-order changes	291
14	Preparation of educational administrators: second-order changes	313
15	Support-service practices and preparation programs: second-order changes	325
16	Prospects and processes the achieving second- and third-order changes	347
	Appendix	377
	Bibliography	387