Curriculum, schooling and applied research : challenges and tensions for researchers /: challenges and tensions for researchers. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jenny Donovan, Karen A. Trimmer, Nick Flegg.
• Editors: Donovan, Jenny; Trimmer, Karen; Flegg, Nick
• Contents: 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. Padró, 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. Children versus curriculum: Who wins?; Dr Carole Haeusler, Dr Jennifer Donovan & Professor Grady Venville.- Chapter 8. HPE– navigating the chasm of policy, practices and management to enact the intended curriculum and meet the needs of 21st century learners; Susan Wilson-Gahan.- Chapter 9. A critique of positivist research and an argument for critical theory research as a meeting point for teacher researchers and academic researchers interested in authentic school improvement; A/Professor Michael Christie and Clayton Barry.- Chapter 10. Developing Dialogue between a School Subject Department Head and a University Education Researcher: Convergences and Divergences in Experiencing Educational Change and Complexity; Don Harris & Professor Patrick A. Danaher.- Chapter 11. The 'Wicked Problem' of implementing Evidence based Practice in Special and Inclusive Education: A Sociocultural Analysis; A/Professor Roselyn M. Dixon and A/Professor Irina Verenikina.- Chapter 12. Afterword: Innovating and researching in schools; Associate Professor Judith MacCallum.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 375.006; Curriculum change; Teacher participation in curriculum planning; Classroom management; Educational change
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030488222
• Related ISBNs: 9783030488215
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