Thinking about curriculum change

I've rather belatedly been doing some reading around curriculum change in engineering and come acorss this great article :
http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/4315732/walkington-2002-180k?da=y

She has lots of good if rather idealistic advice about the process which will provide some handy discussion points for our papers. I want to describe where all three cases have a measure of success and a measure of failure and compare the reasons for that to her advice. For instance she advocates extensive discussion and collaboration in devising and implementing change but time and again I keep thinking, yes, but... what about the staff memeber who stonewalls, what about the students who appear to conform but inwardly resist etc. Also, what do you do about insufficient institutional support?

Anyway, if you get a chance to glance at this before our next chat it would be great.

Lesley

Also have either of you come across a book called Engineering Education Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruction (Heywood 2005). I've just founf it and it seems like a good summary of the field.