Knowledge, control and in‐service education and training for teachers

2 Changing teachers’ practice: innovation and ideology in a part‐time B.Ed, course

“…It suggests that support groups, though valuable, are not a complete answer. And perhaps it raises the question of whether teachers themselves find certain constructions professionally useful; whether, for instance, the control accruing to the college in the model put forward by Gorbutt, and in the models adopted by many INSET providers, also serves teachers' ends (see T. P. Olsen (1982) and Campbell (1981) for an analysis of control). In the remainder of this paper we sketch one interpretation of our results which accords with Young's suggestion, and touches on these issues.…”