Governing Education in a Complex World

Foreword and Acknowledgements -- Executive Summary -- Modern governance challenges in education -- Complexity theory and systemic change in education governance -- Hierarchies, networks and improvisation in education governance -- Exploring accountability -- Making multiple school accountability work -- Complexity in a bureaucratic-federalist education system -- Knowledge and research use in local capacity building -- Policy experimentation in complex education systems -- Experimentalism in Dutch education policy -- Learning to fail, not failing to learn -- Enhancing effective education governance -- Contributors.