ABSTRACT

The teachers and learners in this volume are working hard at learning together. Through their actions and reflections on and in their actions, they are gaining insights about how meanings are made by individuals, how those personal meanings are shared and developed consensually, and how to use their collective brain power to enhance and enrich each other's learning. Although they have some blueprints to follow, particularly Cook's and Boomer's chapters (2, 1and 3respectively), these teachers and learners are mostly cutting their own trails. What they've done is moved beyond the rhetoric of reform to the enactment of transformative education.