Reimagining school change: The necessity and reasons for hope

Changing schools. This phrase can be read in two ways. The first is a description of schools being in a continual state of flux driven by social, cultural and economic shifts, and policy agendas. We are using it in a second and more positive sense to talk about changing schools for educative, democratic and socially just purposes. Of course, talking about changing schools immediately raises issues about who is driving change, for what ends, and in whose interests. And today, the idea of change inevitably draws our attention to the increasingly global contexts in which schools are located and the ways in which a range of technologies mediate who knows what and who is able to know about what