Curriculum, schooling and applied research: challenges and tensions for researchers

Curriculum, schooling and applied research: challenges and tensions for researchers

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.

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Paper originally presented at 29th Australian Council of Health Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER) International Conference 2015, 13-15 April 2015 (Record #27702).