ABSTRACT
Our concern in this book is how schools can facilitate teachers’ ongoing learning about how to teach in ways that facilitate students’ learning. More specifically, our concern is with the usefulness for that purpose not only of the two ideas of researching schools and networking schools but more especially with the usefulness of combining these two ideas. Is it sensible and useful to promote networks of researching schools? Do the two ideas share the same assumptions and values sufficiently for them to be easily compatible? And are they likely to be mutually helpful through having complementary strengths, so that each might contribute to overcoming the problems encountered in the development of the other? At this stage, having reviewed some of the literature about each, we should be well placed to know some of the key questions that should be asked about combining the two ideas. It is the task of this chapter to articulate such questions.
