ABSTRACT
Over the last ten years deliberate and determined efforts have been made to improve schooling. This book charts recent and current developments in the practical business of changing classroom practice to make schools more effective. It is devoted to detecting the effects on classroom practice of the efforts made to improve schools and classrooms, and to understanding how classroom practice changes. Contributors include advisory teachers, Higher Education HE tutors and researchers, and work described ranges from early years' classrooms to post-experience course outcomes and the tracking of Inservice education and training INSET effectiveness.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |3 pages
Part 1: Theoretical Assumptions and Methodological Decisions
part |3 pages
Part 2: Intended Change and Observed Outcomes
chapter 6|9 pages
Expect the Unexpected: School-specific Contexts and the Shaping of School-based INSET Projects
part |3 pages
Part 3: Observation of Classroom Practice
chapter 8|13 pages
Children Talking about Poetry: Changing Classroom Practice Through Teacher Oriented Research
part |3 pages
Part 4 Teachers and the Impact of Professional and Organizational Development