This study was an examination of the nature of change in teachers' beliefs and practices over the course of their participation in a three-year collaborative project. The results suggest that teacher change is a long-term process, evolving from an early focus on enacting activities, to an increasingly broader emphasis on the principled uses of the activities, and finally, to an emphasis on changing the broader contexts of the school.
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