By David Jackson, Julie McGrane, Hilary Street, Julie Temperley

A part of the bettering faculties sequence. To be released with numerous different titles during this sequence in April 2005. bettering faculties via Collaborative studying indicates how tuition development should be more suitable via motion learn by means of practioners, specially the place this examine is collaborative in its layout, interpretation, review and dissemination. The authors express the contribution to this strategy of networking inside and among faculties.

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Collaborative enquiry: why bother? 31 The transformation agenda and cultural change leadership and sustainability The 'transformation agenda' is the third aspect of the external context for enquiry that is important to explore. David Hargreaves (2003) considers what the concept of transformation might mean and how such transformation of the education system can be achieved. He argues that 'transformation could occur by shaping and stimulating disciplined processes of innovation within the school system and building an infrastructure capable of transferring ideas, knowledge and new practices laterally across it' (p.

Systematic - they accept the reality of centralised policy context, but also realise the need to adapt external changes for internal purpose, and to exploit the creativity and synergies existing within the system. , pp. 16-17) Collaborative enquiry with its emphasis on practitioner and pupil learning is an important element of this third stage, and a key part of authentic school improvement. The link between the elements of the framework and collaborative enquiry are shown in the table below.

Knowledge society schools have to create these qualities, otherwise their people and their nations will be left behind ... the knowledge society is, in Joseph Schumpeter's terms, a force of creative destruction. It stimulates growth and prosperity but its relentless pursuit of profit and self-interest also strains and fragments the social order. The term knowledge society is actually a misnomer. I stick with it in this book because of its widespread and accepted usage ... a knowledge society is really a learning society.

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