Sustainable Leadership and Development in Education: creating the future, conserving the past

This article addresses how to reconcile the creative and innovative emphases of future knowledge societies with the needs and demands for longer term sustainable development of enduring and worthwhile practices — within education and beyond it. Drawing on a theoretical framework of organisational memory and sustainability, the article argues that most change efforts deny or demean the past in an attempt to promise a better future, and need instead to build improvement efforts in ways that connect their future and their past.