I like the way this article argues that there are different types of change, with different actors implicated, and at different speeds, though I think the discussion here in incomplete and serves to comfort educators perhaps more than they should be comforted. After all, while there's no doubt many types of evolutionary change happening, and while these changes are gentle and calming, the way things are going it seems likely that they will be overwhelmed by much larger changes not anticipated in this article. The list of transformational changes - which include federation, harmonization, and acquisition - is missing a crucial possibility: annihilation. None of the 'transformational' changes anticipate, for example, a 50% or greater budget cut. But these days, especially worldwide, that's certainly a possibility (not one, mind you, that I endorse; but preparing for a pandemic doesn't mean you're cheering for the virus).
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