Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Teachers as hackers in educational reform (21 Nov 2003) Teachers are not regularly referred to as 'hackers', especially not by former chiefs of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. But ex-QCA chief executive David Hargreaves uses the teacher-as-hacker metaphor to illustrate a new model of educational reform in which transformation occurs in the interactions between networks of practitioners, and is not simply directed from the top-level down. In his keynote presentation to the Networked Learning Communities (NLC) 2003 conference, Hargreaves suggested that most educational reform is like the construction of a cathedral: it takes a long time but once completed is immense. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art08.htm Read 76 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The One     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy