Aiming to help teachers make a fuller contribution to school development, this text provides a guide to "reflective action planning", a teacher-led system for initiating and sustaining educational change.

The goal of this text is to help teachers explore and define their own positions with regard to key topics and issues related to the aims of education in a democratic society. It explains how reflection is integral to teachers' work and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another.