Setting expectations for educational innovations

Journal of Educational Change

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 425-455

  Towndrow, Phillip A ^a   Silver, Rita E ^a   Albright, James ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Educational change; Educational policy implementation; Innovation based educational research; Instructional innovation; Singapore educational context; Teacher professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958486979     PISSN: 13892843     EISSN: 15731812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10833-009-9119-9     Document Type: Article

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