Second International Handbook of Educational Change (Hardcover, 2009)

Theories of Change.- Better Schools Through Better Knowledge? New Understanding, New Uncertainty.- Innovation and Diffusion as a Theory of Change.- The Psychodynamics of Educational Change.- Moving Change: Evolutionary Perspectives on Educational Change.- A Temporary, Intermediary Organization at the Helm of Regional Education Reform: Lessons from the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative.- Change from Without: Lessons from Other Countries, Systems, and Sectors.- Positive Pressure.- Education for an Interdependent World: Developing Systems Citizens.- Social Movement Organizing and Equity-Focused Educational Change: Shifting the Zone of Mediation.- Community Organizing and Educational Change.- Recent Developments in the Field of Educational Leadership: The Challenge of Complexity.- Large-Scale Reform in the Era of Accountability: The System Role in Supporting Data-Driven Decision Making.- Teacher Emotions in the Context of Educational Reforms.- The Micropolitics of Educational Change and Reform: Cracking Open the Black Box.- Systemic Change.- How Government, Professions and Citizens Combine to Drive Successful Educational Change.- Educational Change and Demographic Change: Immigration and the Role of Educational Leadership.- Probing the Limits of Systemic Reform: The English Case.- How to Change 5,000 Schools.- Educational Change in Finland.- China as a Case Study of Systemic Educational Reform.- Educational Leadership in Racially Divided Communities.- Educational Change in Chile: Reform or Improvements? (1990-2007).- A Market for Knowledge?.- Marketization and Post-Marketization in Education.- Large-Scale Assessment for Accountability Purposes.- Digital Technologies and Educational Change.- Toward a Theory of Teacher Education for Social Justice.- Connecting Learning Communities: Capacity Building for Systemic Change.- International Comparisons of Student Learning Outcomes.- Teaching and Educational Transformation.- Levels of Change.- The Legacy of the School Effectiveness Research Tradition.- Professional Learning Communities at the Crossroads: How Systems Hinder or Engender Change.- New Teacher Induction and Mentoring for Educational Change.- Smart School Improvement: Towards Schools Learning from Their Best.- How Successful Leadership Influences Student Learning: The Second Installment of a Longer Story.- The Moral Character of Academic Learning: Challenging the Exclusivity of the Reigning Paradigm of School Learning.- Teacher Leadership: Developing the Conditions for Learning, Support, and Sustainability.- On Personalizing Learning and Reculturing Teaching in Large High School Conversions to Small Schools.- Improving Schools in Challenging Contexts.- Knowledge-Based Organizational Learning for Instructional Improvement.- Federations and System Leadership.- Every School a Great School - Realising the Potential of System Leadership.- School-Based Networking for Educational Change.- Travel of District-Wide Approaches to Instructional Improvement: How Can Districts Learn from One Another?.- Teaching, Learning and Change.- Involving Children and Young People in Educational Change: Possibilities and Challenges.- Adaptive People and Adaptive Systems: Issues of Learning and Design.- Changing Classroom Learning.- Making Sure that Every Child Matters: Enhancing Equity Within Education Systems.- Making Formative Assessment the Way the School Does Business: The Impact and Implications of Formative Assessment for Teachers, Students and School Leaders.- Self-Evaluation for School Improvement.- The Emerging Politics of Curriculum Reform: Technology, Knowledge, and Power in Homeschooling.- Supporting the Education and Care of Young Children: Putting into Practice What We Know.- Reforming Upper Secondary Education in England: A Necessary but Difficult Change.- Gender and Educational Change.- Class, Race, and Educational Achievement.- Blindness to Change Within Processes of Spectacular Change? What Do Educational Researchers Learn from C