This book explores how teachers can navigate the complex process of managing change within the classroom. The chapters highlight the new challenges that have arisen with the emergence and introduction of educational technology as teachers find themselves having to be responsive to the needs and demands of multiple stakeholders. Traversing a range of conceptual, disciplinary and methodological boundaries, the editors and contributors investigate the tensions that impinge on research-based change and how to integrate directed changes into their education system and classroom. Subsequently, this volume argues that posing these questions leads to increased understanding of the possible long term effects of educational change, and how teachers can know whether their solutions are effective.
Foreword: Reflections about conducting research in teachers science classrooms; Professor David Treagust.- Chapter 1. Educational innovation: Challenges of conducting and applying research in schools; Professor Karen Trimmer, Dr Jennifer Donovan and Dr Nicholas Flegg.- Chapter 2. The long march towards school improvement in France: paradoxes, tensions and adjustments between bottom-up innovations and top-down policies; Professor Romuald Normand.- Chapter 3. The unintended impact of regulatory compliance: The case of pre-service teacher preparation to teach integrated math-science education under No Child Left Behind; A/Professor Fernando F. Padr?, Marlene M. Hurley & Karen Trimmer.- Chapter 4. An Educated Nation: Governmental Policy and Early Childhood Education in America; Dr Jannah Nerren.- Chapter 5. Innovation and research in the Danish public school;
Emeritus Professor Palle Rasmussen & Dr Karen E. Andreasen.- Chapter 6. Teacher Perceptions of Daily Physical Activity and Perceived Contextual Barriers to the Implementation of Daily Physical Activity; Natasha Williams, Dr Harsha N. Perera.- Chapter 7. Clƒ4
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