This book aims to help teachers and those who support them to re-imagine
the work of teaching, learning and leading. In particular, it shows how
transformations of educational practice depend on complementary
transformations in classroom-school- and system-level organisational
cultures, resourcing and politics. It argues that transforming education
requires more than professional development to transform teachers; it
also calls for fundamental changes in learning and leading practices,
which in turn means reshaping organisations that support teachers and
teaching - organisational cultures, the resources organisations provide
and distribute, and the relationships that connect people with one
another in organisations. The book is based on findings from new
research being conducted by the authors - the research team for the
(2010-2012) Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project Leading
and Learning: Developing Ecologies of Educational Practice.