... while claiming to value it. The paper proposes an alternative model (vertical tutoring), one that relies on home–school collaboration and developing the capacity to absorb the complexity that collaboration creates Design/methodology/approach Models of home–school collaboration abstracted from...

..., and individual and organisational learning, but offer insights into the challenge of school reform. Findings Same-age organisations act in ways that regulate and restrict the agency of participating actors (staff, students and parents). The effect is to reduce a school’s learning capacity and ability...