Large scale school reform and social capital building / edited by Ian R. Haslam, Myint Swe Khine and Issa M. Saleh.

Includes bibliograhical references and index.

Social capital: the professional development imperative for large scale reform / Ian R. Haslam, Myint Swe Khine and Issa M. Saleh -- System reform and primary literacy: implication for school leadership / Brahm Fleisch -- Wicked path to transformative education Reform / Conrad Wesley Snyder -- Design research approach in the large scale educational innovations / Janne Pietarinen, Kirsi Pyh�alt�o, Tiina Soini -- High performing teachers colleges, social capital and large scale reform in the Kingdom of Bahrain / Ian R. Haslam -- Assessment of wide-scale educational reform initiatives: opportunities in social capital building / Ramona A. Hall -- Developing social capital through national education: the transformation of teacher education in Turkey / Gary M. Grossman -- System improvement through capacity building: the power and potential of professional learning communities / Alma Harris and Michelle Jones -- System and policy dimensions of professional development / Mark Ginsburg -- Australian middle years reform: a focus on teachers and leaders as the subjects and agents of change / Katherine Main -- Career guidance in Oman ? establishing a centre and the use of action research as a tool for capacity building / Gari Donn -- Educational reform and professional Development: paradigm shift and international syndrome / Yin Cheong Cheng.