7. Development of Networking and Networks Egon Hedegaard
ABSTRACT The intent of this chapter is to share with readers our knowledge of how the national and international networks on new teacher induction have developed in some countries in Northern Europe, from the perspective of active network members. Furthermore, the intent is to analyse the similarities and differences of networking and networks, to characterise the knowledge being developed and to describe future perspectives. If you are especially interested in how networking on induction has developed in Denmark, Estonia, Norway or Sweden, from the perspective of network participants, you should read the specifi c narratives written by participants from those countries. If you are especially interested in gaining a comparative perspective on the development of national and international networking in some countries in Northern Europe, you should read all the narratives and the analyses of the similarities and differences of the networking. If you are only interested in a discussion on the change of characteristics of knowledge as a result of the growing focus on networking and networks, you should go directly to section Networks and networking as a change of mode of knowledge production at page 163.