Ideas of and Attitudes towards Projects and Changing Practices: Voices of Four Teachers

Autor/inn/en	Shome, Saurav; Natarajan, Chitra
Titel	Ideas of and Attitudes towards Projects and Changing Practices: Voices of Four Teachers
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 38 (2013) 10, Artikel 5 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-5373
Schlagwörter	Semi Structured Interviews; Educational Practices; Middle School Teachers; Active Learning; Student Projects; Teacher Attitudes; Educational Change; Change Strategies; Beliefs; Teacher Role; Foreign Countries; Integrated Curriculum; Student Evaluation; Teamwork; Program Administration; Work Attitudes; Science Course Improvement Projects; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungspraxis; Middle school; Middle schools; Teacher; Teachers; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Aktives Lernen; Schulprojekt; Lehrerverhalten; Bildungsreform; Lösungsstrategie; Belief; Glaube; Lehrerrolle; Ausland; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Indien
Abstract	The paper reports a study of the project practices of four Indian middle school teachers, elicited through semi-structured interviews of individual teachers. The teachers also responded to a proposal to modify four aspects of existing project practices, viz. subject integration, assessment, group work, and management of resources. The aspects were derived to be significant from the recommendations of the Indian National Curriculum Framework (2005), and based on research literature on project-based learning (PBL). The study found that teachers largely used projects as motivating exercises before teaching, or an activity for applying what was learnt. Hence, they associated fluid meanings to projects, like tasks given as home assignments, gathering information, or a scrap-book activity. Teachers felt too burdened with work for conducting projects within school hours, and sought systemic changes before the researchers' proposal for changing practices could be implemented. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10