In the early days of School Improvement, everything seemed to hover around building participation and partnership in the teaching staff, and then the wider community (students, other staff and parents). It was quite an untheoretical endeavour, a matter of systematically building trust and collaboration. This remains essential but not enough. Whenever the more complex issues in education are important, much deeper and more theoretical analysis is needed. Many articles in the present issue are exemplary and groundbreaking in the way they apply theory to complex realities, and with particular regard to dimensions of social justice.

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深入思考教育变革

在学校改进的早期，一切似乎都围绕着在教职员工和更广泛的社区（学生、其他员工和家长）中建立参与和伙伴关系。这是一项非常没有理论意义的努力，是一个系统地建立信任和合作的问题。这仍然必不可少，但还不够。每当教育中更复杂的问题变得重要时，就需要进行更深入和更多的理论分析。本期中的许多文章在将理论应用于复杂现实的方式上具有示范性和开创性，特别是在社会正义方面。