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David Hargreaves argues that schools will be transformed only when teachers embrace the 'hacker ethic' - or the culture of the open source movement - where people develop new knowledge and practices as a pooled resource, that is given away for free to all who are ready to improve it.

The innovation networks now needed in education should be decentralised, distributed and disciplined - run by teachers for teachers, shared between them as a common professional possession and focused on urgent and important priorities agreed among them. In this new booklet David Hargreaves suggests what both teachers and government need to do to make this happen.

Working Laterally is adapted from Education Epidemic, also written by David Hargreaves. It is published in conjunction with the Department for Education and Skills.