Drawing upon a three-year case study
of teacher initiated innovation, this
article challenges the prevailing view
that teacher resistance to innovation is
pathological. It focuses on the concerns of
a group of teachers in relation to their
teaching perspectives and shows that
'losers' are a fundamental reality in the
process of innovation. The author is in the
School of Education at Exeter University.
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