ABSTRACT
Given the diversity and complexity of the cultural settings described in Chapter 4, we needed a way of working together that could cross national and cultural boundaries and respect the differing traditions and practices of our research collaborators and practitioners in the schools which we brought together for the first time in Cambridge in 2002. We needed a methodology which would have a number of key features not all of which were fully understood at the outset. We have described these as federalist, eclectic, emergent, practice-focused and educative.
