ABSTRACT
In a book which sets out to describe in some detail a do-it-yourself IMPACT, we find we have to start off with a series of questions. These are not rhetorical questions-we simply do not know all the answers. IMPACT is a project that has turned heads in Australia, Eire, Scandinavia, Germany and the USA. Educationalists from far and wide, engaged in their own work, look at IMPACT for the same reason we look at theirs. All of us are part of the world of teaching and learning and are already doing things. You cannot first design projects in the abstract and then see how they will fit with what is going on in the world. This is partly because the world we inhabit ceaselessly poses us with new problems, challenges and opportunities to which we must respond. This means that in the middle of creating initiatives, responding and improvizing we have to talk and question. There are no ‘once and for all’ answers or strategies.
