Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and indexes.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Networking and collaboration: a new model for educational improvement?, -- PART 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND: Chapter 2: Networking and collaboration as a public policy framework, -- Chapter 3: Localised theories of networking and collaboration, -- Chapter 4: Societal theories of networking and collaboration, -- Chapter 5: Towards a typology of educational networks, -- PART 2: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS:Chapter 6: Federations of schools, -- Chapter 7: Networked Learning Communities, -- Chapter 8: Specialist Schools Support Network, -- Chapter 9: Multiagency collaboration, -- PART 3: SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION, -- Chapter 10: Successful networking: in-school conditions, -- Chapter 11: Successful networking: external conditions, -- Chapter 12: Leading networks and collaboratives, -- Chapter 13: When (not) to network, -- Chapter 14: Conclusion.
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This text provides a theoretical background to educational collaboration, drawing on research and theory in policy studies, psychology and sociology, leading ultimately to a typology of networks. This theoretical base is tested in the discussion of a number of case studies referring to specific initiatives. --