Theorising transformative change in schools
Team
Dr Ruth Unsworth (Lead)
CenTCS
University of Glasgow
Professor Brianna L. Kennedy
CenTCS
University of Glasgow
Dr Ismail Özgür Zembat
CenTCS
University of Glasgow
Abstract
What does transformative change actually look like? What are its different time scales? How might it be pursued? How do we know if/when it is happening? How do teachers (learn to) engage with, experience, enact transformative change? We take up these questions in this conceptual work that follows on from the CenTCS Project Stream 1 output from 2025-26 Transformative Educational Change: A CenTCS Lexicon.
Keywords
transformative change; teacher agency; impact; the role of schools in society