Kurt Lewin on Reeducation

Abstract

In the acknowledgements of Lewin’s place as the father of action research, his work on reeducation is rarely cited. Yet it is clear that much of what he understood to be central to the complex process of reeducation is critical to the process of change and underlies the philosophical principles and practice of action research. This article presents Lewin’s generally neglected paper on reeducation to enable action researchers to build on and use this important paper of Lewin’s.