Introduction Connecting Teacher and School Development: Policies, Practices and PossibilitiesChristopher Day Theme 1: Issuesin Professionalism and Performativity Introduction Leslie N. K. Lo 1. Performing to Expectations: Teacher's Dilemma in East Asia and in Chinese Societies Leslie N. K. Lo,manhong Lai and Shuangye Chen 2. Performance Cultures of Teaching: Threat or Opportunity?Judyth Sachs and NicholeMockler3. Teaching as Profession...Are we there yet?A Lin Goodwin 4. Accountability vs Teacher Autonomy: an Issue of BalanceM Ben-Peretz Theme 2: Conjecture and Disjuncture in Teachers' Work LivesIntroductionCiaran Sugrue 5. Warehousing the School House: Impact on Teachers' Work and Lives Sue Lasky 6. Work and Life of South American Teachers in Their ContextsMenga Ludke and Luiz Alberto Boing 7. Teachers’ Work and Lives: A European PerspectiveMaria A Flores 8. Teachers’ Work and Lives in Sub-Saharan Africa: Outsider PerspectivesCiaran Sugrue and Alicia Fentiman Theme3 Reason and Emotion in Teaching IntroductionDan Liston 9. Changing the Story: Teacher Education through Re-Authoring their NarrativesMellony Graven 10. Growing Immigration and Multiculturalism in Europe: Teachers’ Emotions and the Prospects of Social Justice EducationMichalinos Zembylas and Sharon Chubbuck 11. Presence in Teaching Carol R. Rodgers and Miriam Raider Roth 12. Learning as Devotional Practice: The Role of the TeacherAnn Game and Andrew Metcalf Theme4 Schools in Different Circumstances: Contexts MakeA Difference IntroductionPat Thomson 13. Collaborative Inquiries into Literacy, Place and Identity in Changing Policy Contexts: Implications for Teacher Development Barbara Comber and Helen Nixon 14. Teachers, the Politics of the Governed and Educational Development: Insights from South AfricaBrahm Fleisch 15. Local Context, Social Relations and School OrganisationRuth Lipton 16. The Politics of Teacher Development for an Indigenous People: Colonising Assumptions within Maori Education in Aotearoa, New ZealandMartin Thrupp and Carl Mika Theme 5 Student Voices in a Global Context: Rights, Benefits and Limitations IntroductionRuth Leitch 17. Critical Issues and Contexts of Student Voice In the United StatesStephanie Serriere and Dana Mitra 18. Engaging Students in Research Relationships for School ReformBill Atweh, Derek Bland, Kylie Smith and Ash Woodward 19. Students’ Views on Equity and Justice in India’s Schools Anita Rampal 20. Agency, Access, Silence and Ethics: How Young People’s Voices from Africa can Contribute to Social and Educational Change in Adult-Dominated SocietiesSusan Kiragu, Sharlene Swartz, Jeremiah Chikovore, Fibian Lukalo and Georgina Yaa Oduro Theme 6 Professional Learning and Development IntroductionAnne Edwards 21. The Praxis of Expansive Learning in TeachingWolf-Michael Roth 22. Policies and Practices for the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of Teachers in South Africa and NamibiaKerry Kretchmar, John Nyambe, Maureen Robinson, Melanie Sadek and Ken Zeichner 23. Continuing Professional Learning in the Asia-Pacific Region: Tensions and Opportunities in Teacher Knowledge and the Governance of EducationJoce Nuttal, Terri Seddon and Hien T. T Phan 24. The Professional Development of Teachers: European PerspectivesAnne Edwards and Viv Ellis Theme 7 Innovative Pedagogies Introduction Allan Luke and Annette Woods25. What Makes Teachers Effective? Profiles of Innovative Classroom PracticeAlison Kington, Christopher Day, Pam Sammons, Elaine Regan, Eleanor Brown and Judyth Gunraj 26. Weaving As Frontload and Backend Pedagogies: Building Repertoires of Connected LearningDennis Kwek 27. From New Media to Critical Media Literacies: Politics, Practice, and PedagogyKorina Jocson and Jeff Share 28. Moving with the Times: Pedagogies for Mobile StudentsRobyn Henderson and Patrick A Danaher Theme 8 School Effectiveness and Improvement Introduction Tony Townsend 29. School Effectiveness Research, 1932 to Today, Including a Call for Future ResearchSam Stringfield and Charles Teddlie 30. Using Educational Effectiveness Research to Improve the Quality of Teaching PracticeB.P.M Creemers and Leonidas Kyriakides 31. Good Schools for Some but why not Better Schools for all? Sub-Saharan Africa in TransitionTom Bisschoff and Chris Rhodes 32. Capital Formation in the Futures Focused School: Indicators of a Breakthrough in School ImprovementB Caldwell, D Loader, J Harris and Y Zhao Theme 9 Successful Schools, Successful Leaders IntroductionOlof Johansson 33. Successful Schools Across North America: Meeting Challenges and Extending Opportunities in Canada and the United StatesPaul V. Bredeson, Carolyn J. Kelly and Hans Klar 34. Successful Schools – A European PerspectiveKaterina Norberg 35. Successful School Leadership in ChinaAllan Walker and Quian Haian 36. Successful Schools, Successful Leaders: The Australian CaseDavid Gurr Theme 10 Learning About Professional Communities: Their Practices, Problems & Possibilities IntroductionAnne Lieberman 37. Learning Communities in Learning Schools: Developing the Social Capacity for ChangeKaren Seashore Louis 38. Deepening Learning in School-to-School NetworksLouise Stoll, Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser 39. Sustaining Professional Learning Networks – The Australasian ChallengeSusan Groundwater-Smith and Nicole Mockler 40. School Networks, Networked Learning and ‘Network Theory’ Mark Hadfield and Michael Jopling