In short, the theory of learning management was aimed at what we saw as significant voids in the understanding of pedagogy and pedagogical practice in standard schools and schooling and in university-based teacher education. Of particular interest to our concern with ‘the efficacy of education for all students’ was the idea that the dominant pedagogical practices of schooling and teacher education are a major contributor to the failure of schools to fulfil their promise for many students and their families and to the “knowing-doing gap” that policy makers struggle with in their attempts to adjust education for social change6 in a knowledge economy.