This handbook contains an art collection of important ideas and evidence of educational change. The book brings together some of the most influential thinkers and writers on educational change. It deals with issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. It asks why some people resist change and what their resistance means, and looks at how men and women, older teachers and younger teachers, experience change differently. The text explores the positive aspects of change and raises uncomfortable questions about many aspects of educational change. It looks critically at the social, economic, cultural and political forces that are driving educational change.