The pathways and processes through which empowering community settings influence their
members, the surrounding community and the larger society are examined. To generate the …

This article reports research results concerning one of the most important areas of
leadership theory and practice, educational change and its impact upon teachers. Drawing …

This chapter rests on two fundamental assumptions about educational leadership. First,
such leadership is about the exercise of influence and, second, the effects of such influence …

O título desta obra define bem o programa proposto, no texto, que vai ser lido. Efetivamente,
o que nele se preconiza é a promoção da inovação pedagógica, colocando, nas mãos dos …

In the early 1970s–a century after the first Finnish novel Seven Brothers was published–
Finland was known for its long-distance runners, introverted people, saunas on lakes, and …

Internationally there is an increasing trend to publish and feed back information to schools
and teachers on their functioning. School improvement is often the central goal, though …

Located within the context of Indian education reforms, this study is a critique of the current
model of continuous professional development of teachers. The study, by reviewing national …

This article discusses the issue of the sustainability of educational change in the light of
findings from research undertaken in tandem with a development project initiated by a …

As transfers of educational ideas across countries accelerate in the twenty-first century with
globalization, studies on educational change have lagged in foregrounding the importance …

This paper is based on a multiple case study of schools which have been identified as
improving their performance for about a decade. We proposed different criteria by which to …