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      Analysing pedagogical change: Physics teachers' responses to a new curriculum.

      Fernandez, Teresa Sushama; Ritchie, Garth
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      Fernandez, T.S. & Ritchie, G. (2003). Analysing pedagogical change: Physics teachers' responses to a new curriculum. Waikato Journal of Education, 9, 91-111.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6249
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      This paper describes teachers' attempts to implement the 1994 New Zealand physics curriculum in the first year of its introduction to secondary schools in 1998. Analysis of interviews with 10 physics teachers and the three curriculum writers led to the identification of a number of barriers to changes in pedagogical practices. The barriers identified aligned with factors that had been identified by other researchers as important influences on teachers undergoing change. It is argued that a sociocultural perspective suggests that there were three main reasons why significant pedagogical change was not occasioned by the curriculum document. Firstly, there was very limited knowledge about why changes were being implemented. Secondly, there was little social and system support for the curriculum change. Finally, teachers had no time to focus on and reflect on the change.
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      2003
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      Faculty of Education, University of Waikato
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      © 2003 Waikato Journal of Education. It is posted here by permission for personal use.
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