Abstract
It is not as if we can avoid change, since it pursues us in every way. We might as well, then, make the best of it. The answer is not in avoiding change, but in turning the tables by facing it head on. The new mindset is to exploit change before it victimises us...We can learn to reject unwanted change more effectively, while at the same time becoming more effective at accomplishing desired improvements. Grappling with educational change in self-defeating ways has been the modal experience over the last 30 years.