The design and use of a mapping tool as a baseline means of identifying an organization’s active networksFootnote¹

1. This article is based on the work of Learning How to Learn in Classrooms, Schools and Networks. This was a four‐year development and research project funded from January 2001 to July 2005 by the UK Economic and Social Research Council as part of Phase II of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (see http://www.tlrp.org). The Project (ref: L139 25 1020) was directed by Mary James (University of Cambridge until December 2004, then at the Institute of Education, University of London) and co‐directed, from 2002, by Robert McCormick (Open University). Other members of the research team were Patrick Carmichael, Mary‐Jane Drummond, John MacBeath, David Pedder, Richard Procter and Sue Swaffield (University of Cambridge), Paul Black and Bethan Marshall (King’s College London), Leslie Honour (University of Reading) and Alison Fox (Open University). Past members of the team were Geoff Southworth, University of Reading (until March 2002), Colin Conner and David Frost, University of Cambridge (until April 2003 and April 2004 respectively) and Dylan Wiliam and Joanna Swann, King’s College London (until August 2003 and January 2005 respectively). Carmel Casey‐Morley and Nichola Daily were project administrators. Further details are available at: www.learntolearn.ac.uk.

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