The Impact of Bela H. Banathy's Research on an Educational Scholar-Practitioner

This remembrance is a narrative of how Bela H. Banathy's work involving the idealized design approach to educational change mediated and informed the author's attempt to understand the complexity of educational change. In addition, commentary is provided about the influence on the author's students of Banathy's ideas regarding systems thinking, design culture, design conversation, conscious evolution, and evolutionary guidance systems.