Training in how to undertake practical research (referred to as action research) is not usually part of teacher training. Moreover, this book argues that curriculum inquiry belongs to the practitioner who is best placed to research his or her own practice. Obviously the teacher or lecturer is ill-equipped to conduct such research without the vital tools.

Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative process model for designing developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure.

This comprehensive and authoritative book:

• offers a practical and theoretical plan for curriculum-making without objectives
• shows that a curriculum can be best planned and developed at school level by teachers adopting an action research role
• complements the spirit and reality of...

Algebraic geometry is one of the most diverse fields of research in mathematics. It has had an incredible evolution over the past century, with new subfields constantly branching off and spectacular progress in certain directions, and at the same time, with many fundamental unsolved problems still to be tackled. In the spring of 2009 the first main workshop of the MSRI algebraic geometry program served as an introductory panorama of current progress in the field, addressed to both beginners and experts. This volume reflects that spirit, offering expository overviews of the state of the art in...

A handbook of research techniques for teachers, this book documents the historical development and changing nature of action research in the curriculum and aims to encourage teacher development through curriculum inquiry. It describes 57 action research tools, ten of which are new.