Reforming Teaching: Is It Possible?.

Wood, Eric

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ERIC Number: EJ420514

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Publication Date: 1990

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Reforming Teaching: Is It Possible?

Wood, Eric

Education Canada, v30 n4 p28-35 Win 1990

Explains why movements toward more progressive, inquiry-based teaching practices generally have failed. Examines resistance to change arising from school climate, greater demands of progressive teaching, nature of teacher preparation and teaching practices, deficiencies in teacher knowledge of subject matter, and controversy over purposes of schooling. Contains 23 references. (SV)

Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Experimental Teaching, Inquiry, Progressive Education, Resistance to Change, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation, Teaching Conditions

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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