There is excellent work that has been done on learning to learn—I point especially to
the work of Guy Claxton (2002, 2007) for further elaboration. In the limited space I have
here I will look at one example of field research (the evaluation of a youth empowerment
partnership programme) that explored the processes involved in connecting schools and
communities. I do this deliberately as all questions and arguments pertaining to system
transformation live or die in the implementation, and as such we must be concerned with
how we move from academic arguments to making and sustaining changes for real students
and teachers.