This book argues that classroom teachers and students should be involved in the processes of innovation and change in our schools. It is the right of teachers and pupils as partners in the daily life of the classroom to understand what they are doing and why they are doing it, to recognize the areas where they can influence and improve the experience of learning and teaching and to appreciate, each in their own ways, that the goal always is to extend the possibilities of control over one's own working environment and over one's life chances through deeper professional and personal understanding. Throughout, the book emphasizes the significance of co-operative work, of who "owns" the new ideas and the innovations, and of the meaning as well as the management of change.