Rich Task Implementation: modernism meets postmodernism.

'School renewal', 'productive pedagogies', 'rich tasks', 'New Basics', 'key learning areas'--these are some of the discourses of change in selected Queensland schools. This paper will report on teaching as an insider/outsider in a school's Health and Physical Education department during a time of in...

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Published in:Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 247 - 263
Main Author: MacDonald, Doune
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Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2003
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