ANDY HARGREAVES division of instructor schooling, Curriculum and guideline Lynch college of schooling, Boston collage, MA, U.S.A. ANN LIEBERMAN Carnegie starting place for the development of training, Stanford, CA, U.S.A. MICHAEL FULLAN Ontario Institute for reports in schooling, collage of Toronto, Canada DAVID HOPKINS division for schooling and abilities, London, U.K. This set of 4 volumes on academic swap brings jointly facts and insights on academic switch concerns from prime writers and researchers within the box from internationally. a lot of those writers, whose chapters were specifically written for those books, were investigating, supporting start up and imposing academic swap, for many or all in their long careers. Others are engaged on the leading edge of concept and perform in academic switch, taking the sphere in new or perhaps tougher instructions. and a few are extra skeptical in regards to the literature of academic switch and the assumptions on which it rests. they assist us to technique tasks of realizing or starting up academic switch extra deeply, reflectively and realistically. academic swap and reform have hardly had loads prominence inside of public coverage, in such a lot of assorted locations. academic swap is ubiquitous. It figures huge in Presidential and best Ministerial speeches. it's at or close to the head of many nationwide coverage agendas. all over the place, academic switch isn't just a coverage precedence but in addition significant public information. but motion to result in academic swap often exceeds people's figuring out of the way to take action effectively.