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Wolf, W. C., Jr. – Clearing House, 1979
This satire reports an imaginary research study which found three motivations for educational innovation: money, happiness, and garlic. The article facetiously traces the careers of three innovators: the director of an institute, a government official, and a popular writer. (SJL)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Innovation, Motivation, Satire

Eibler, Herbert J. – Clearing House, 1969
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, High Schools

Common, Dianne L. – Clearing House, 1981
Examining the power relationship between teachers and change agents in the case of a centrally developed and advocated innovation. The author concludes that teachers have the greater power to control or prevent school change by refusing to implement the innovation. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Innovation