ABSTRACT
This is a book about change in schools and school systems. We began by building a case for a particular approach to change, one defined by the collaborative involvement of researchers and educational practitioners. We call the approach participatory evaluation and locate it within a conceptual landscape of teacher professionalism as inquirymindedness and organizations as learning entities as the backdrop, and teachers’ joint work as the foreground. These fundamental elements, in our view, are key to sustained organizational improvement and educational reform. The purpose of this book has been to study closely a variety of applications of participatory evaluation and to critically assess their impact and viability as elements of the educational reform picture.
