20 years (or so) of Teachers’ Centres. What have we learned? What can we share?

Co‐operation and Tension between Autonomous Schools: a study of inter‐school networking

“…Where a secondary 'cluster' always met on one site, two head teachers, one of them in the V 'family', independently emphasised that this site was perceived as 'neutral territory'. Gough (1989) pointed out that teachers' centres had provided useful neutral (i.e. free from the cultural zone of influence of a particular LEA or head teacher) meeting places for teachers.…”

Teachers' centres as seen through the pages of theBritish Journal of In-service Education

“…Jack Howe (1983) Gough, 1988). In this paper, it was suggested that teachers' centres in Britain were products of their particular history, context and evolution and that, consequently, we need to be aware of other cultural contexts if we are to understand their development elsewhere.…”