Summary

This text is about people who are aware of their own need to learn, and the need to apply that learning to the process of facilitating other people's learning. It looks at change, not in the sense that change is an isolated singularity, or a string of isolated singularities, that might sufficiently enter the stream of consciousness; but of change being the nature of that stream of consciousness. As we live we are in a continuing process of transformation, engaging in a form of thinking that is transformatory, and that transforms our social practices. For such change to carry the imperative of quality, the change must be for the better, it must be improvement. Improvement is linked inextricably with the notion of education, with the idea of openness to new possibilities, of responsible choice in diversity. Such is the nature of the stories in this book. Each story describes how its author deliberately changed an aspect of practice in the service of the people in his or her care. Such deliberation implies a willingness to change.