{"id":454,"date":"2012-05-12T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T21:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/?p=454"},"modified":"2012-05-12T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T21:10:37","slug":"agents-of-change-for-the-paradigm-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/2012\/05\/12\/agents-of-change-for-the-paradigm-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Agents of Change for the Paradigm Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this document from 1991, the proponents of &#8220;OBE&#8221; or Outcome Based Education, describe how difficult it sometimes is to transform a school  into a &#8220;community of learners&#8221; and a vehicle for social change.<\/p>\n<p>It describes in full how retraining school officials to become &#8220;agents of change for social justice&#8221; is often radical, messy, and protested as being in defiance of logic about what has worked in the past.<\/p>\n<p>These agents provocateur of transformational change care not about academics, only a political agenda, to which those who object soon find themselves on the outs.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Paradigm_Shift1991.pdf'>Paradigm Change: More Magic than Logic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this document from 1991, the proponents of &#8220;OBE&#8221; or Outcome Based Education, describe how difficult it sometimes is to transform a school into a &#8220;community of learners&#8221; and a vehicle for social change. It describes in full how retraining school officials to become &#8220;agents of change for social justice&#8221; is often radical, messy, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}