The study presented in this dissertation examines the process of change in 39 elementary schools as they participated in the implementation of a board-wide balanced literacy initiative. The study focuses specifically on the perspectives of school personnel—teachers, principals, and literacy facilitators—after one year of implementation as staff engaged with the requirements of new pedagogical practices and increased collaboration. The study has several goals: (a) to better understand the nature and role of teacher agency in a change process; (b) to examine the role of professional collaboration in teacher learning and acceptance of change; (c) to add to our understanding of resistance to change processes; and (d) to examine what factors see...
Politically mandated development projects get attention in reports, assessments, plans and policies....
Politically mandated development projects get attention in reports, assessments, plans and policies....
248 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.In theory, sustaining and sca...
Thesis (M.Ed.)--Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, 1998Change is now synonymous with edu...
This study investigates agency-structure dynamics in students and teachers’ social activity in a nov...
Despite repeated attempts to reform schools, teachers' work has remained surprisingly stable. The p...
This study investigates agency-structure dynamics in students and teachers’ social activity in a no...
Educational reformers have called for the empowerment of teachers in matters of policy and pedagogy....
Research on teachers’ responses to educational innovations is often focussed on either contextual fa...
This study investigated the impact of mandated pedagogical change on teachers. It traced the narrati...
Research on teachers’ responses to educational innovations is often focussed on either contextual fa...
This is a single bounded case study, which investigated reluctant change in one restructuring middle...
Research on teachers’ responses to educational innovations is often focussed on either contextual fa...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study, which emerged from concerns associated with the ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study, which emerged from concerns associated with the ...
Politically mandated development projects get attention in reports, assessments, plans and policies....
Politically mandated development projects get attention in reports, assessments, plans and policies....
248 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.In theory, sustaining and sca...
Thesis (M.Ed.)--Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, 1998Change is now synonymous with edu...
This study investigates agency-structure dynamics in students and teachers’ social activity in a nov...
Despite repeated attempts to reform schools, teachers' work has remained surprisingly stable. The p...
This study investigates agency-structure dynamics in students and teachers’ social activity in a no...
Educational reformers have called for the empowerment of teachers in matters of policy and pedagogy....
Research on teachers’ responses to educational innovations is often focussed on either contextual fa...
This study investigated the impact of mandated pedagogical change on teachers. It traced the narrati...
Research on teachers’ responses to educational innovations is often focussed on either contextual fa...
This is a single bounded case study, which investigated reluctant change in one restructuring middle...
Research on teachers’ responses to educational innovations is often focussed on either contextual fa...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study, which emerged from concerns associated with the ...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study, which emerged from concerns associated with the ...
Politically mandated development projects get attention in reports, assessments, plans and policies....
Politically mandated development projects get attention in reports, assessments, plans and policies....
248 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.In theory, sustaining and sca...