Key readings

Brandsford, J. D., Brown, A. L. and Cocking, R.R. (1999) How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, D. C., National Academy Press.

Bryk, A. and Schneider, B. (2002) Trust in Schools. New York: Russell Sage.

Clarke, P (2000) Learning Schools, Learning Systems. London Cassell.

Claxton, G. (1999) Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning. London: Bloomsbury.

Day, C. (1999) Developing Teachers: The Challenges of Lifelong Learning. London, Falmer Press.

Fullan, M. (2001) Leading in a Culture of Change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Fullan, M. G. and Hargreaves, A. (1991) What's Worth Fighting For? Working Together for Your School, Toronto, Ontario Public School Teachers Federation.

Hargreaves, A. (2003) Teaching in the Knowledge Society. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Hopkins, D. and Jackson, D. (2002) Networked Learning Communities – Capacity Building, Networking and Leadership for Learning. Cranfield: National College for School Leadership.

Hord, S. M. (1997) Professional Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement. Austin, Texas, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.

Huffman, J. B. and Hipp, K.K. (2003) Professional Learning Community Organizer, in J. B. Huffman and K.K. Hipp (eds) Professional Learning Communities: Initiation to Implementation. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Johnson, N. and Scull, J. (1999) The power of professional learning teams, Improving Schools, 2 (1): 34 -43.

King, M. B. and Newmann, F. M. (2001) Building school capacity through professional development: conceptual and empirical considerations, International Journal of Educational Management, 15 (2): 86-93.

Lieberman, A. and Wood, D. R. (2003) Inside the National Writing Project: Connecting Network Learningf and Classroom Teaching. New York: Teachers College Press.

Little, J (2002) Locating learning in teachers' communities of practice: opening up problems of analysis in records of everyday work, Teaching and Teacher Education, 18 (8): 917-946.

Little, J. W. (2000) Organizing schools for teacher learning. In L. Darling-Hammond and G. Sykes (eds) Teaching as a Learning Profession: Handbook of Policy and Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Louis, K. S., Kruse, S. D. and Associates (1995) Professionalism and Community: Perspectives on Reforming Urban Schools. Thousand Oaks, CA, Corwin Press.

MacGilchrist, B., Myers, K. and Reed, J. (1997) The Intelligent School. London, Paul Chapman.

McLaughlin, M. W. and Talbert, J. E. (2001) Professional Communities and the Work of High School Teaching. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Mitchell, C. and Sackney, L. (2000) Profound Improvement: Building Capacity for a Learning Community. Lisse, the Netherlands, Swets & Zeitlinger.

Prosser, J. (1999) School Culture. London, Paul Chapman.

Rosenholtz, S. J. (1989) Teachers' Workplace: The Social Organization of Schools. New York, Longman.

Senge, P. (ed), Cambron-McCabe, N., Lucas, T., Smith, B., Dutton, J. and Kleiner, A. (2000) Schools That Learn, London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

Stoll, L., Fink, D. and Earl, L. (2003) It's About Learning (and It's About Time): What's in it for Schools? London, RoutledgeFalmer.

Toole, J. C. and Louis, K. S. (2002) The Role of Professional Learning Communities in International Education, in K. Leithwood and P. Hallinger (eds) Second International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Watkins, C., Carnell, E., Lodge, C., Wagner, P. and Whalley, C. (2000) Learning about Learning: Resources for Supporting Effective Learning. London, RoutledgeFalmer.

Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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