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Mind the gap: education reform policy and pedagogical practice

Hutchison, Alan ( 2011)

As a study in policy impact analysis this research investigated policy penetration in the case of mathematics teaching in six Victorian government secondary schools to gauge the degree of reform policy traction achieved. It found further evidence of the policy-practice gap observed in the literature. The study argues that reform policy expectations lack adequate theoretical understanding of how pedagogical practice is socially constructed, and proposes a more realistic and defensible conceptualisation of teachers’ professional knowledge.