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Workshop 2

Introduction
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Section J
Activity J1
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Section J  Relating to research case studies

The ‘stories’ that you looked at in the first workshop, about the ways in which teachers approach and implement curriculum innovation, were simplified accounts drawn from real case studies. They were simplified because they viewed the factors that affected teachers’ transformations in isolation. Reality is more complex, since transformations are brought about not by single factors, but by factors that overlap and interact with each other. In this section, you will look at examples of case studies from the research that attempt to capture some of that complexity. You will relate the case studies and your own experience to the general findings of the research on teachers’ transformations.

The activities in this section are: 


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