Introduction
Educational change and policy formation
Economic change, educational policy formation and the role of the state
How education became nobody's business
Developing under developing circumstances
the personal and social development of students and the process of schooling
The relationship between social and educational change
Community, school change and strategic networking
Social change and the individual
changing patterns of community and the challenge for schooling
Social change, subject matter - and the teacher
Conceptualisng school change processes
Changing school cultures
Some elements of a micro-political theory of school development
Changing conceptions of action research
Preparing teachers for a creative engagement with educational change
Reflective education and school culture socialization of student teachers
Case study and case records
a conversation about the Hathaway project
Experts of the future
Teacher control and the reform of professional development
Overview chapter: Towards a synoptic vision of educational change in advanced industrial societies
Index.